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Repair MIME Formatting Problems in an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ApplyFixups method, which repairs selected MIME-formatting problems commonly found in email produced by other software. The argument is a comma-separated list of fixup keywords. The currently defined keyword is FixRelated, which relocates HTML-related items (such as embedded images) into the appropriate MIME structure so they are not incorrectly presented as ordinary attachments. This example loads an email and applies that fixup.

Background: Not every mail program builds strictly correct MIME. A common defect is placing an inline image as a loose attachment instead of nesting it in a multipart/related enclosure, which makes it show up as a downloadable file rather than displaying in the HTML. ApplyFixups corrects such structural issues so the message renders as intended.

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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Demonstrates the ApplyFixups method, which repairs selected MIME-formatting problems
        // commonly found in email produced by other software.  The argument is a comma-separated
        // list of fixup keywords.

        Email email = new Email();

        try {
            email.loadEml("qa_data/eml/message.eml");

            // Apply the "FixRelated" fixup, which relocates HTML-related items (such as embedded
            // images) into the proper MIME structure so they are not shown as ordinary attachments.
            email.applyFixups("FixRelated");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Applied MIME fixups.");

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