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Repair MIME Formatting Problems in an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ApplyFixups method, which repairs selected MIME-formatting problems commonly found in email produced by other software. The argument is a comma-separated list of fixup keywords. The currently defined keyword is FixRelated, which relocates HTML-related items (such as embedded images) into the appropriate MIME structure so they are not incorrectly presented as ordinary attachments. This example loads an email and applies that fixup.

Background: Not every mail program builds strictly correct MIME. A common defect is placing an inline image as a loose attachment instead of nesting it in a multipart/related enclosure, which makes it show up as a downloadable file rather than displaying in the HTML. ApplyFixups corrects such structural issues so the message renders as intended.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the ApplyFixups method, which repairs selected MIME-formatting problems
    //  commonly found in email produced by other software.  The argument is a comma-separated
    //  list of fixup keywords.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/message.eml");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return true;
        }

    //  Apply the "FixRelated" fixup, which relocates HTML-related items (such as embedded
    //  images) into the proper MIME structure so they are not shown as ordinary attachments.
    success = email.ApplyFixups("FixRelated");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return true;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Applied MIME fixups.");

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

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}