Ruby

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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require 'chilkat'

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 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("Original")
email.put_From("alice@example.com")
email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.put_Body("Original body.")

#  Copy the entire email into a new Email object.
copy = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()

success = email.MakeCopy(copy)
if (success == false)
    print email.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Copy subject: " + copy.subject() + "\n";
print "Copy NumTo: " + copy.get_NumTo().to_s() + "\n";