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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.Chilkat VBScript Downloads
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)
' 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 = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "GetPlainTextBody example"
email.SetTextBody "Hello, this is the plain-text body.","text/plain"
' Retrieve the text/plain body.
plain = email.GetPlainTextBody()
outFile.WriteLine(plain)
outFile.Close