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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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VB.NET
Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email

' Load an email from a .eml

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


' Display the default Body:
Debug.WriteLine(email.Body)

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


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