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Make a Copy of an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into another Email object — message content, recipients, headers, body representations, attachments, and related items. This example copies an email and reads a couple of fields from the copy.

Background: A deep copy gives you an independent duplicate: changes to one object do not affect the other. This is handy for template-and-tweak workflows — build a base message once, copy it per recipient, then vary only the recipient or a few fields — without risk of one send's edits bleeding into the next.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

//  Demonstrates the MakeCopy method, which copies the entire state of this email into
//  another Email object -- message content, recipients, headers, bodies, attachments, and
//  related items.

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "Original"
email.From = "alice@example.com"
success = email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.Body = "Original body."

//  Copy the entire email into a new Email object.
Dim copy As New Chilkat.Email

success = email.MakeCopy(copy)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Copy subject: " + copy.Subject)
System.DebugLog("Copy NumTo: " + Str(copy.NumTo))