Visual FoxPro

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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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL n
LOCAL i

lnSuccess = 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.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

lnSuccess = loEmail.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/dsn_bounce.eml")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

n = loEmail.NumReports
? "NumReports = " + STR(n)

FOR i = 0 TO n - 1
    ? "---- Report " + STR(i) + " ----"
    ? loEmail.GetReport(i)
NEXT

*  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.

RELEASE loEmail