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Visual Basic 6.0

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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail

' Load an email from a .eml

success = email.LoadEml("something.eml")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Display the default Body:
Debug.Print email.Body

' If a plain-text body is present, display it:
Dim bText As Long
bText = email.HasPlainTextBody()
If (bText = 1) Then
    Debug.Print email.GetPlainTextBody()
End If

' If an HTML body is present, display the HTML source:
Dim bHtml As Long
bHtml = email.HasHtmlBody()
If (bHtml = 1) Then
    Debug.Print email.GetHtmlBody()
End If