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Get a Report Part from a multipart/report Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetReport method, which returns the body content of the Nth report within a multipart/report email. The NumReports property gives the count, and indexes are zero-based. This example loads a report email and prints each report part.

Background: A multipart/report message — used for bounces (DSNs) and read receipts (MDNs) — bundles machine-readable report parts alongside the human-readable explanation. GetReport returns the raw content of one such part so a program can parse it, for example to extract the failing recipient and status code from a bounce. Use GetDeliveryStatusInfo for direct field-level access to the delivery-status part.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

// Demonstrates the GetReport method, which returns the body content of the Nth report
// within a multipart/report email.  The NumReports property gives the number of reports;
// indexes are zero-based.

$email = new Email();

try {
    $email->LoadEml('qa_data/eml/dsn_bounce.eml');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

$n = $email->NumReports;
echo 'NumReports = ', $n, "\n";

for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
    echo '---- Report ', $i, " ----\n";
    echo $email->GetReport($i), "\n";
}

// A report returned by GetReport is the body of a report part -- for a bounce (DSN),
// that is the machine-readable message/delivery-status part.  It looks similar to:
//
//   Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.example.com
//   Received-From-MTA: dns; sender.example.com
//   Arrival-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:15:30 +0000
//
//   Final-Recipient: rfc822; nonexistent@example.com
//   Action: failed
//   Status: 5.1.1
//   Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.1.1 <nonexistent@example.com> User unknown

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