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Get a Report Part from a multipart/report Email

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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var
success: Integer;
email: TChilkatEmail;
n: Integer;
i: Integer;

begin
success := 0;

//  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 := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);

success := email.LoadEml('qa_data/eml/dsn_bounce.eml');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

n := email.NumReports;
Memo1.Lines.Add('NumReports = ' + IntToStr(n));

for i := 0 to n - 1 do
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('---- Report ' + IntToStr(i) + ' ----');
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.GetReport(i));
  end;

//  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.