Check Whether an Email Is a multipart/report

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.IsMultipartReport method, which returns true when the top-level message structure is a multipart/report (such as a bounce/DSN or a read receipt/MDN). This example loads an email and reports whether it is a multipart/report.

Background: Automated mail — delivery failures and read receipts — arrives wrapped in the multipart/report structure, which carries machine-readable report parts. Detecting it with IsMultipartReport is the first step in a bounce-handling pipeline: once you know a message is a report, you can pull its parts with GetReport or read delivery fields with GetDeliveryStatusInfo to act on failures automatically.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmail email;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the IsMultipartReport method, which returns true if the top-level message
    //  structure is a multipart/report (such as a bounce / DSN or a read receipt / MDN).

    email = CkEmail_Create();

    success = CkEmail_LoadEml(email,"qa_data/eml/dsn_bounce.eml");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    if (CkEmail_IsMultipartReport(email) == TRUE) {
        printf("This email is a multipart/report (e.g. a bounce or read receipt).\n");
    }
    else {
        printf("This email is not a multipart/report.\n");
    }

    //  Note: The path "qa_data/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
    //  relative to the current working directory of the running application.


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }