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Make a Copy of an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into another Email object — message content, recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, and related items. This example copies an email and reads a couple of fields from the copy.

Background: A deep copy gives you an independent duplicate: changes to one object do not affect the other. This is handy for template-and-tweak workflows — build a base message once, copy it per recipient, then vary only the recipient or a few fields — without risk of one send's edits bleeding into the next.

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

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into
#  another Email object -- message content, recipients, headers, bodies, attachments, and
#  related items.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Original"
$email.From = "alice@example.com"
$email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
$email.Body = "Original body."

#  Copy the entire email into a new Email object.
$copy = New-Object Chilkat.Email

$success = $email.MakeCopy($copy)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Copy subject: " + $copy.Subject)
$("Copy NumTo: " + $copy.NumTo)