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Get the Plain-Text Body of an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the text/plain content type. It reads the plain-text representation already present in the email object rather than generating one from HTML. This example sets a plain-text body and reads it back.

Background: The plain-text body is the fallback representation of a message — the version shown when HTML can't or shouldn't be rendered, and the form usually preferred for search, indexing, and accessibility. GetPlainTextBody targets it specifically; if the message contains only HTML, this returns empty (check with HasPlainTextBody), so a robust extractor falls back to GetHtmlBody when needed.

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Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

#  Demonstrates the GetPlainTextBody method, which returns the email body having the
#  text/plain content type.  It reads the plain-text representation already present in the
#  email object.

set email [new_CkEmail]

CkEmail_put_Subject $email "GetPlainTextBody example"

CkEmail_SetTextBody $email "Hello, this is the plain-text body." "text/plain"

#  Retrieve the text/plain body.
set plain [CkEmail_getPlainTextBody $email]
puts "$plain"

delete_CkEmail $email