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Get a Report Part from a multipart/report Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReport method, which returns the body content of the Nth report within a multipart/report email. The NumReports property gives the count, and indexes are zero-based. This example loads a report email and prints each report part.

Background: A multipart/report message — used for bounces (DSNs) and read receipts (MDNs) — bundles machine-readable report parts alongside the human-readable explanation. GetReport returns the raw content of one such part so a program can parse it, for example to extract the failing recipient and status code from a bounce. Use GetDeliveryStatusInfo for direct field-level access to the delivery-status part.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# Demonstrates the GetReport method, which returns the body content of the Nth report
# within a multipart/report email.  The NumReports property gives the number of reports;
# indexes are zero-based.

email = chilkat2.Email()

success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/dsn_bounce.eml")
if (success == False):
    print(email.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

n = email.NumReports
print("NumReports = " + str(n))

for i in range(0,n):
    print("---- Report " + str(i) + " ----")
    print(email.GetReport(i))

# A report returned by GetReport is the body of a report part -- for a bounce (DSN),
# that is the machine-readable message/delivery-status part.  It looks similar to:
# 
#   Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.example.com
#   Received-From-MTA: dns; sender.example.com
#   Arrival-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:15:30 +0000
# 
#   Final-Recipient: rfc822; nonexistent@example.com
#   Action: failed
#   Status: 5.1.1
#   Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.1.1 <nonexistent@example.com> User unknown

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