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Set a MIME Body from Plain Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromPlainText method, which sets the body as plain text. The only argument is the text. For ASCII input Chilkat uses text/plain with 7bit encoding; for non-ASCII it selects an appropriate charset and encoding.

Background: This is the simplest way to give a MIME entity a text body — Chilkat picks a sensible Content-Type and transfer encoding for you based on the content. Plain ASCII stays as 7bit with no charset, while text containing accented or non-Latin characters gets a charset (typically UTF-8) and a suitable encoding so it survives transmission intact. It is the text counterpart to SetBodyFromHtml and SetBodyFromXml.

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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 Mime.SetBodyFromPlainText method, which sets the body as plain text.  The only
'  argument is the text.  For ASCII, Chilkat sets Content-Type: text/plain and a 7bit transfer
'  encoding; for non-ASCII it selects an appropriate charset and encoding.

set mime = CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")

success = mime.SetBodyFromPlainText("Hello, this is a plain-text message body.")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

mimeText = mime.GetMime()
If (mime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine(mimeText)

outFile.Close