Body

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Overview

The Body property allows you to set and retrieve the plain text content of an email message. When set, it automatically changes the BodyFormat to olFormatPlain.

Syntax

vba

' To set the Body
mailItem.Body = "Your plain text message"

' To get the Body
messageText = mailItem.Body

Return Value

A String value containing the body of the MailItem.

Example

vba

Sub BodyExample()
    Dim app As New nlsMailer.Application
    Dim mailItem As Object

    ' Create a new mail item
    Set mailItem = app.CreateItem(olMailItem)

    ' Set plain text body
    mailItem.Body = "Hello,

This is a simple plain text email message.

Best regards,
Your Name"

    ' Verify body content
    Debug.Print mailItem.Body

    ' Check body format (automatically set to plain text)
    Debug.Print mailItem.BodyFormat ' Outputs: olFormatPlain

    ' Append text to existing body
    mailItem.Body = mailItem.Body & vbNewLine & "P.S. This text was appended."
End Sub