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Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Transition from Email.GetDsnFinalRecipients to Email.GetDsnInfo

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated GetDsnFinalRecipients method calls with GetDsnInfo.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();

#  Load a multipart/report DSN email.
$success = $email->LoadEml("qa_data/eml/dsn_example.eml");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  The GetDsnFinalRecipients method is deprecated:

# sa is a StringArray
$sa = $email->GetDsnFinalRecipients();
if ($email->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$i = 0;
$count = $sa->get_Count();
while ($i < $count) {
    print $i . ": " . $sa->getString($i) . "\r\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
}

print "----" . "\r\n";

#  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Do the equivalent using GetDsnInfo.
#  Your application creates a new, empty JsonObject object which is passed 
#  in the last argument and filled upon success.

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $email->GetDsnInfo($json);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";
print "----" . "\r\n";

#  The JSON contains the following:

#  {
#    "reporting-mta": "dns; mail.example.com",
#    "received-from-mta": "dns; smtp.example.com",
#    "arrival-date": "Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400",
#    "final-recipient": [
#      "rfc822; alice@example.com",
#      "rfc822; bob@example.com",
#      "rfc822; carol@example.com"
#    ],
#    "action": "failed",
#    "status": "5.1.1",
#    "remote-mta": "dns; smtp.recipientdomain.com",
#    "diagnostic-code": "smtp; 550 5.1.1 User unknown",
#    "last-attempt-date": "Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400",
#    "action": "failed",
#    "status": "5.1.2",
#    "remote-mta": "dns; smtp.recipientdomain.com",
#    "diagnostic-code": "smtp; 550 5.1.2 Host unknown (Domain name not found)",
#    "last-attempt-date": "Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400",
#    "action": "failed",
#    "status": "5.7.1",
#    "remote-mta": "dns; smtp.recipientdomain.com",
#    "diagnostic-code": "smtp; 550 5.7.1 Relay access denied",
#    "last-attempt-date": "Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400"
#  }

#  Iterate over the final-recipients
$i = 0;
$count = $json->SizeOfArray("final-recipient");
while ($i < $count) {
    $json->put_I($i);
    $recipient = $json->stringOf("final-recipient[i]");
    print $i . ": " . $recipient . "\r\n";

    $i = $i + 1;
}

#  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  This is the contents of the dsn_example.eml used for this example:

#  From: postmaster@example.com
#  To: sender@example.com
#  Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
#  MIME-Version: 1.0
#  Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
#      boundary="boundary-string"
#  
#  --boundary-string
#  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
#  
#  This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
#  
#  Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:
#  
#      alice@example.com
#      bob@example.com
#      carol@example.com
#  
#  Technical details of permanent failure:
#  DNS Error: Domain name not found
#  
#  --boundary-string
#  Content-Type: message/delivery-status
#  
#  Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.example.com
#  Received-From-MTA: dns; smtp.example.com
#  Arrival-Date: Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400
#  
#  Final-Recipient: rfc822; alice@example.com
#  Action: failed
#  Status: 5.1.1
#  Remote-MTA: dns; smtp.recipientdomain.com
#  Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.1.1 User unknown
#  Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400
#  
#  Final-Recipient: rfc822; bob@example.com
#  Action: failed
#  Status: 5.1.2
#  Remote-MTA: dns; smtp.recipientdomain.com
#  Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.1.2 Host unknown (Domain name not found)
#  Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400
#  
#  Final-Recipient: rfc822; carol@example.com
#  Action: failed
#  Status: 5.7.1
#  Remote-MTA: dns; smtp.recipientdomain.com
#  Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 Relay access denied
#  Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400
#  
#  --boundary-string
#  Content-Type: message/rfc822
#  
#  Return-Path: <sender@example.com>
#  Received: from smtp.example.com (smtp.example.com [192.168.1.10])
#      by mail.example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123456789
#      for <alice@example.com>, <bob@example.com>, <carol@example.com>;
#      Fri, 8 May 2025 14:23:42 -0400
#  Message-ID: <001a113d789f$ad34bc30$038e34b0$@example.com>
#  From: Sender Name <sender@example.com>
#  To: alice@example.com, bob@example.com, carol@example.com
#  Subject: Test Message
#  Date: Fri, 8 May 2025 14:20:00 -0400
#  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
#  
#  This is a test email message sent to multiple recipients.
#  --boundary-string--
#