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Count the Report Parts in a multipart/report Email

Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumReports property, which is the number of report parts in a multipart/report email. A part is counted as a report when its Content-Type is message/* (except message/rfc822) or text/rfc822-headers. Use GetReport to retrieve the body of each report part; indexes are zero-based. This example loads a report email and prints each report part.

Background: When a message can't be delivered, the mail system usually sends back a bounce known as a Delivery Status Notification (DSN). DSNs use the multipart/report structure, which bundles several parts: a human-readable explanation, a machine-readable message/delivery-status part describing exactly what happened (recipient, status code, failing server), and often the original message's headers. Reading these report parts lets a program automatically detect and process bounces.

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Local $bSuccess = False

;  Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumReports property, which is the number of report
;  parts in a multipart/report email (for example, a Delivery Status Notification).
;  Use GetReport to retrieve the body of each report part.  Indexes are zero-based.

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")

;  Load a multipart/report email (such as a bounce / DSN message).
$bSuccess = $oEmail.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/dsn_bounce.eml")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

Local $iN = $oEmail.NumReports
ConsoleWrite("NumReports = " & $iN & @CRLF)

Local $i
For $i = 0 To $iN - 1
    ConsoleWrite("---- Report " & $i & " ----" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.GetReport($i) & @CRLF)
Next