Objective-C

Get a Digest Message as an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetDigestEmail method, which copies the Nth digest email contained within a multipart/digest into another Email object. The first digest is at index 0; the NumDigests property gives the count. This example loads a digest email and lists each bundled message's subject.

Background: A multipart/digest packs many separate emails into one carrier message — historically used by mailing lists to send a single daily bundle of that day's posts. GetDigestEmail unpacks each member into a full Email object so it can be read or processed individually. This differs from GetAttachedEmail, which extracts messages attached to an ordinary email rather than the members of a digest.

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#import <CkoEmail.h>

BOOL success = NO;

//  Demonstrates the GetDigestEmail method, which copies the Nth digest email contained
//  within a multipart/digest into another Email object.  The first digest is at index 0;
//  use the NumDigests property for the count.

CkoEmail *email = [[CkoEmail alloc] init];

success = [email LoadEml: @"qa_data/eml/digest.eml"];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",email.LastErrorText);
    return true;
}

int n = [email.NumDigests intValue];
NSLog(@"%@%d",@"NumDigests = ",n);

//  Retrieve each bundled message as its own Email object.
CkoEmail *digestEmail = [[CkoEmail alloc] init];
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
    success = [email GetDigestEmail: [NSNumber numberWithInt: i] email: digestEmail];
    NSLog(@"%@%d%@%@",@"Digest ",i,@" subject: ",digestEmail.Subject);
}

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