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Get the Plain-Text Body of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the text/plain content type. It reads the plain-text representation already present in the email object rather than generating one from HTML. This example sets a plain-text body and reads it back.

Background: The plain-text body is the fallback representation of a message — the version shown when HTML can't or shouldn't be rendered, and the form usually preferred for search, indexing, and accessibility. GetPlainTextBody targets it specifically; if the message contains only HTML, this returns empty (check with HasPlainTextBody), so a robust extractor falls back to GetHtmlBody when needed.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

#  Demonstrates the GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the
#  text/plain content type.  It reads the plain-text representation already present in the
#  email object.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "GetPlainTextBody example"

$email.SetTextBody("Hello, this is the plain-text body.","text/plain")

#  Retrieve the text/plain body.
$plain = $email.GetPlainTextBody()
$($plain)