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Email Body - Plain Text and/or HTML

Any given email may have a plain-text body, an HTML body, or both. The Body property will return the HTML body by default (if it exists) otherwise it will return the plain-text body. There are methods for checking to see if an email has a particular body (HasPlainTextBody and HasHtmlBody) and there are methods for getting a specific body: GetHtmlBody, GetPlainTextBody.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

email = chilkat2.Email()

# Load an email from a .eml

success = email.LoadEml("something.eml")
if (success != True):
    print(email.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Display the default Body:
print(email.Body)

# If a plain-text body is present, display it:

bText = email.HasPlainTextBody()
if (bText == True):
    print(email.GetPlainTextBody())

# If an HTML body is present, display the HTML source:

bHtml = email.HasHtmlBody()
if (bHtml == True):
    print(email.GetHtmlBody())