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Pascal (Lazarus/Delphi)

Create MDN (Message Disposition Notification) Email

Demonstrates how to create a MDN (Message Disposition Notification) Email having the format as defined in RFC 3798.

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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;
  mdnEmail: TEmail;

begin
  success := False;

  email := TEmail.Create;

  //  An MDN can be used to notify the
  //  sender of a message of any of several conditions that may occur after
  //  successful delivery, such as display of the message contents,
  //  printing of the message, deletion (without display) of the message,
  //  or the recipient's refusal to provide MDNs.
  //  (for more information, see RFC 3798)

  //  IMPORTANT:
  //  Note: Please be careful in sending automated MDN'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 ToMdn method is called to create a new
  //  MDN email based upon the email object calling ToMdn.
  //  The email object instance used to call ToMdn 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 MDN for "someEmail.eml"
  success := email.LoadEml('someEmail.eml');
  if (success = False) then
    begin
      WriteLn(email.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;

  //  The MDN created by ToMdn will contain a 
  //  "message/disposition-notification" MIME sub-part that will
  //  be composed of a number of name-value pairs.
  //  See RFC 3798  ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3798 )
  //  The name-value content for this part is passed
  //  as XML to ToMdn. 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 -- they are simply for the example.  
  xml.Tag := 'DispositionFields';
  xml.NewChild2('Disposition','manual-action/MDN-sent-manually; displayed');
  xml.NewChild2('Original-Message-ID',email.GetHeaderField('Message-ID'));
  xml.NewChild2('Final-Recipient',email.GetToAddr(0));

  xmlStr := xml.GetXml();

  //  The last argument to be passed to ToMdn will be a boolean
  //  indicating whether to include the entire MIME of the calling
  //  email object in the MDN, 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 MDN header-only.
  bHeaderOnly := True;

  //  The first argument to be passed to ToMdn will
  //  be a human-readable explanation that will be placed
  //  into the 1st MIME part of the MDN (see RFC 3798).
  humanReadableExplanation := 'Blah blah blah.  Your message has been received and displayed. Blah blah blah';

  //  OK, we're ready to create MDN...
  mdnEmail := TEmail.Create;

  success := email.ToMdn(humanReadableExplanation,xmlStr,bHeaderOnly,mdnEmail);
  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 MDN email:
  WriteLn(mdnEmail.GetMime());

  //  Sample output showing the MIME of the original email,
  //  and the MDN 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=disposition-notification;
  //  	 boundary="------------000802010206080606030808"
  //  
  //  --------------000802010206080606030808
  //  Content-Type: text/plain
  //  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  //  
  //  Blah blah blah.  Your message has been received and displayed. Blah blah blah
  //  --------------000802010206080606030808
  //  Content-Type: message/disposition-notification
  //  
  //  Disposition: manual-action/MDN-sent-manually; displayed
  //  Original-Message-ID: <4E009AA4.3090205@chilkatsoft.com>
  //  Final-Recipient: support@chilkatsoft.com
  //  
  //  --------------000802010206080606030808
  //  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
  //  --------------000802010206080606030808--
  //  
  //  


  email.Free;
  xml.Free;
  mdnEmail.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.