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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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import sys
import chilkat

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 = chilkat.CkEmail()
email.put_Subject("Project update")
email.put_From("alice@example.com")
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.put_Body("Here is the project update.")

#  Create a reply email based on this message.
reply = chilkat.CkEmail()

success = email.ToReply(reply)
if (success == False):
    print(email.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

#  The reply is addressed and quoted, ready to edit and send.
print(reply.getMime())