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Remove the Plain-Text Body from an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.RemovePlainTextAlternative method, which removes the plain-text body from the email if one exists. Other body representations, attachments, and related items remain unchanged. This example builds a message with both plain-text and HTML alternatives, then removes the plain text.

Background: This is the counterpart to RemoveHtmlAlternative. Removing the plain-text alternative leaves an HTML-only message. Note that dropping the plain-text fallback is generally discouraged for real mail — it hurts accessibility and can raise spam scores — but it is occasionally needed when a downstream system expects a single HTML representation.

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

#  Demonstrates the RemovePlainTextAlternative method, which removes the plain-text body
#  from the email (if one exists).  Other body representations, attachments, and related
#  items remain.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Remove plain-text alternative"

#  Create an email with both plain-text and HTML alternatives.
$email.SetTextBody("This is the plain-text version.","text/plain")
$email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML version.</body></html>")
$("NumAlternatives before = " + $email.NumAlternatives)
$("HasPlainTextBody before: " + $email.HasPlainTextBody())

#  Remove the plain-text body, leaving the HTML alternative.
$email.RemovePlainTextAlternative()
$("NumAlternatives after = " + $email.NumAlternatives)
$("HasPlainTextBody after: " + $email.HasPlainTextBody())