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Create a Reply Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and body fields so it can be sent as a reply. Attachments are excluded from the reply, but attached messages are included. The source email is not modified. This example creates a reply and prints its MIME.

Background: Replying is more than swapping sender and recipient: the To is set from the original's reply address, the subject gets an Re: prefix, the original text is quoted, and threading headers (In-Reply-To, References) are added so mail clients group the conversation. ToReply assembles all of that, leaving a message you can edit and send. Dropping attachments is the usual reply convention — you rarely echo the sender's files back to them.

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

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and
#  body fields ready to send as a reply.  Attachments are excluded from the reply, but
#  attached messages are included.  The source email is not modified.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Project update"
$email.From = "alice@example.com"
$email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
$email.Body = "Here is the project update."

#  Create a reply email based on this message.
$reply = New-Object Chilkat.Email

$success = $email.ToReply($reply)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  The reply is addressed and quoted, ready to edit and send.
$($reply.GetMime())