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Pascal (Lazarus/Delphi)

Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email

Demonstrates how to create a DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email having the format as defined in RFC 3464.

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Pascal (Lazarus/Delphi)
program ChilkatDemo;

// Demonstrates using the Chilkat Pascal wrapper via the C bridge DLL.
// Builds as a console application under Lazarus (FPC) or Delphi.

{$IFDEF FPC}
  {$MODE DELPHI}
{$ENDIF}
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  {$IFDEF UNIX}
  cthreads,
  {$ENDIF}
  SysUtils,
  CkDllLoader,
  Chilkat.Email,
  Chilkat.Xml;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

procedure RunDemo;
var
  success: Boolean;
  email: TEmail;
  xml: TXml;
  xmlStr: string;
  bHeaderOnly: Boolean;
  humanReadableExplanation: string;
  dsnEmail: TEmail;

begin
  success := False;

  email := TEmail.Create;

  //  A DSN email is a report about the attempt to delivery 
  //  an email.  It is usually a report that indicates failure or
  //  or a delay in delivery.  The DSN is typically sent back to
  //  the sender of an email.

  //  IMPORTANT:
  //  Note: Please be careful in sending automated DSN's.
  //  It is important to be aware of an issue called "backscatter".
  //  See the Wikipedia article here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28e-mail%29

  //  The ToDsn method will be called to create a new
  //  DSN email based upon the email object calling ToDsn.
  //  The email object instance used to call ToDsn would
  //  typically be an email received from a POP3 or IMAP server.
  //  In this case, to simplify the example, we'll load the email
  //  from a .eml file.

  //  This example will be creating a DSN for "someEmail.eml"
  success := email.LoadEml('someEmail.eml');
  if (success = False) then
    begin
      WriteLn(email.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;

  //  The DSN created by ToDsn will contain a 
  //  "message/delivery-status" MIME sub-part that will
  //  be composed of a number of name-value pairs.
  //  See RFC 3464 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3464 )
  //  The name-value content for this part is passed
  //  as XML to ToDsn. This part of the example
  //  prepares the XML:
  xml := TXml.Create;

  //  For this example, we're just adding a few name-value pairs.
  //  These should not be considered to be correct, required or
  //  even sensible -- it's simply for the example.  
  xml.Tag := 'DeliveryStatusFields';
  xml.NewChild2('Status','5.1.2 (bad destination system: no such domain)');
  xml.NewChild2('Diagnostic-Code','smtp; Permanent failure: no such domain');
  xml.NewChild2('X-BounceCategory','bad-domain');

  xmlStr := xml.GetXml();

  //  The last argument to be passed to ToDsn will be a boolean
  //  indicating whether to include the entire MIME of the calling
  //  email object in the DSN, or only the header.
  //  It may make sense to include the entire email for small emails,
  //  but for large emails (with large attachments) it's probably
  //  best to make the DSN header-only.
  bHeaderOnly := True;

  //  The first argument to be passed to ToDsn will
  //  be a human-readable explanation that will be placed
  //  into the 1st MIME part of the DSN (see RFC 3464).
  humanReadableExplanation := 'Blah blah blah. The delivery of this email failed. Blah blah blah';

  //  OK, we're ready to create DSN....
  dsnEmail := TEmail.Create;

  success := email.ToDsn(humanReadableExplanation,xmlStr,bHeaderOnly,dsnEmail);
  if (success = False) then
    begin
      WriteLn(email.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;

  //  Show the MIME of the source (original) email:
  WriteLn(email.GetMime());

  WriteLn('**************************************');

  //  Show the MIME of the DSN email:
  WriteLn(dsnEmail.GetMime());

  //  Sample output showing the MIME of the original email,
  //  and the DSN email created based upon it:

  //  X-Account-Key: account2
  //  X-UIDL: 0D154945439D42BD80F180F6D9DE4D82
  //  Received: with MailEnable Postoffice Connector;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:23 -0400
  //  Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.227.212]) by chilkatsoft.com with MailEnable ESMTP;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:22 -0400
  //  Received: from omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.196.30.27]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yd4k1g0050b6N64AEdLW9x;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:30 +0000
  //  Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([67.175.202.103]) by omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ydLV1g00n2EMkZ78PdLWxi;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:31 +0000
  //  Message-ID: <4E009AA4.3090205@chilkatsoft.com>
  //  Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:20:36 -0500
  //  From: Chilkat Software <admin@chilkatsoft.com>
  //  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
  //  MIME-Version: 1.0
  //  To: Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>
  //  Subject: test 123
  //  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
  //  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  //  Return-Path: <>
  //  X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110621-0, 06/21/2011), Inbound message
  //  X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
  //  
  //  This is a test 123
  //  
  //  
  //  
  //  **************************************
  //  Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
  //  	 boundary="------------070202040604030701060106"
  //  
  //  --------------070202040604030701060106
  //  Content-Type: text/plain
  //  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  //  
  //  Blah blah blah. The delivery of this email failed. Blah blah blah
  //  --------------070202040604030701060106
  //  Content-Type: message/delivery-status
  //  
  //  Status: 5.1.2 (bad destination system: no such domain)
  //  Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Permanent failure: no such domain
  //  X-BounceCategory: bad-domain
  //  
  //  --------------070202040604030701060106
  //  Content-Type: text/rfc822-headers
  //  
  //  X-Account-Key: account2
  //  X-UIDL: 0D154945439D42BD80F180F6D9DE4D82
  //  Received: with MailEnable Postoffice Connector;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:23 -0400
  //  Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.227.212]) by chilkatsoft.com with MailEnable ESMTP;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:22 -0400
  //  Received: from omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.196.30.27]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yd4k1g0050b6N64AEdLW9x;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:30 +0000
  //  Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([67.175.202.103]) by omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ydLV1g00n2EMkZ78PdLWxi;
  //  	 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:31 +0000
  //  Message-ID: <4E009AA4.3090205@chilkatsoft.com>
  //  Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:20:36 -0500
  //  From: Chilkat Software <admin@chilkatsoft.com>
  //  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
  //  MIME-Version: 1.0
  //  To: Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>
  //  Subject: test 123
  //  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
  //  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  //  Return-Path: <>
  //  X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110621-0, 06/21/2011), Inbound message
  //  X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
  //  --------------070202040604030701060106--
  //  
  //  


  email.Free;
  xml.Free;
  dsnEmail.Free;

end;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

begin

  try
    RunDemo;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      WriteLn('Unhandled exception: ', E.ClassName, ': ', E.Message);
  end;

  WriteLn;
  {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}
  WriteLn('Press Enter to exit...');
  ReadLn;
  {$ENDIF}
end.