VBScript

Load an Email Body from a File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file. The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes. This example loads a plain-text body as utf-8.

Background: Message bodies are often authored and stored as separate files — a marketing team might maintain an HTML template, or a script might generate a text body on the fly. LoadBodyFromFile reads such a file straight into the email, with the isHtml flag telling Chilkat whether to treat it as an HTML or plain-text body and the charset ensuring non-ASCII characters decode correctly.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

'  Demonstrates the LoadBodyFromFile method, which loads the email body from a file.
'  The first argument is the file path, the second is true to create an HTML body or false for a
'  plain-text body, and the third is the charset used to interpret the file's bytes.

set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Body loaded from a file"

'  Load a plain-text body (isHtml = false) using the utf-8 charset.
success = email.LoadBodyFromFile("qa_data/txt/body.txt",0,"utf-8")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine(email.Body)

'  Note: The path "qa_data/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
'  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

outFile.Close