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Remove the Plain-Text Body from an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.RemovePlainTextAlternative method, which removes the plain-text body from the email if one exists. Other body representations, attachments, and related items remain unchanged. This example builds a message with both plain-text and HTML alternatives, then removes the plain text.

Background: This is the counterpart to RemoveHtmlAlternative. Removing the plain-text alternative leaves an HTML-only message. Note that dropping the plain-text fallback is generally discouraged for real mail — it hurts accessibility and can raise spam scores — but it is occasionally needed when a downstream system expects a single HTML representation.

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LOCAL oEmail

//  Demonstrates the RemovePlainTextAlternative method, which removes the plain-text body
//  from the email (if one exists).  Other body representations, attachments, and related
//  items remain.

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Remove plain-text alternative"

//  Create an email with both plain-text and HTML alternatives.
oEmail:SetTextBody("This is the plain-text version.", "text/plain")
oEmail:AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML version.</body></html>")
? "NumAlternatives before = " + Str(oEmail:NumAlternatives)
? "HasPlainTextBody before: " + Str(oEmail:HasPlainTextBody())

//  Remove the plain-text body, leaving the HTML alternative.
oEmail:RemovePlainTextAlternative()
? "NumAlternatives after = " + Str(oEmail:NumAlternatives)
? "HasPlainTextBody after: " + Str(oEmail:HasPlainTextBody())

oEmail:destroy()