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Read Delivery-Status Fields from a Bounce

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetDeliveryStatusInfo method, which returns a named field from the message/delivery-status part of a delivery-status notification (DSN). It should be called only for an email identified as a delivery-status notification. This example loads a bounce message and reads its Action, Status, and Final-Recipient fields.

Background: When a message can't be delivered, the mail system returns a bounce as a multipart/report whose message/delivery-status part carries machine-readable fields: Action (e.g. failed), Status (a numeric code like 5.1.1 meaning "no such mailbox"), and Final-Recipient (the address that failed). Parsing these lets a program automatically detect hard bounces and prune bad addresses from a mailing list.

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#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the GetDeliveryStatusInfo method, which returns a field from the
    //  message/delivery-status part of a delivery-status notification (DSN / bounce).
    //  Call it only for an email that is a delivery-status notification.

    CkEmail email;

    success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/dsn_bounce.eml");
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << email.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return true;
    }

    //  Read individual fields from the message/delivery-status part.
    std::cout << "Action: " << email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Action") << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "Status: " << email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Status") << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "Final-Recipient: " << email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Final-Recipient") << "\r\n";

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