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Repair MIME Formatting Problems in an Email

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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Local $bSuccess = 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.

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")

$bSuccess = $oEmail.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/message.eml")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  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.
$bSuccess = $oEmail.ApplyFixups("FixRelated")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Applied MIME fixups." & @CRLF)

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