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Iterate MIME Parts of an Email

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Demonstrates how to iterate over the MIME sub-parts of an email, and retrieve the content of each MIME sub-part body.

Note: This example requires some new features added to Chilkat v9.5.0.95.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

# See the following Chilkat post to Quickly Understand Email MIME

email = chilkat.CkEmail()

success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/sample.eml")
if (success == False):
    print("Failed to load .eml")
    sys.exit()

sbContentType = chilkat.CkStringBuilder()
caseSensitive = False

# Get the total number of non-multipart MIME sub-parts.
# (This is a simple way of iterating over all the MIME leaf parts regardless of the MIME tree structure)
inlineOnly = False
excludeAttachments = False
searchSpec = "*/*"

numParts = email.GetNumPartsOfType(searchSpec,inlineOnly,excludeAttachments)
i = 0
while i < numParts :
    # What is the Content-Type of this MIME part?
    sbContentType.Append(email.getNthContentType(i,searchSpec,inlineOnly,excludeAttachments))
    if (sbContentType.StartsWith("text/",caseSensitive) == True):
        # Get the text body of this MIME part.
        textBody = email.getNthTextPartOfType(i,searchSpec,inlineOnly,excludeAttachments)
        print("Got text body for " + sbContentType.getAsString())
    else:
        if (sbContentType.ContentsEqual("message/rfc822",caseSensitive) == True):
            # If the Content-Type is message/rfc822, then the MIME body for this part contains a full embedded MIME messages.
            # Your application could load it into a Chilkat email object and recursively process...
            attachedEmail = chilkat.CkEmail()
            bdMime = chilkat.CkBinData()
            email.GetNthBinaryPartOfTypeBd(i,searchSpec,inlineOnly,excludeAttachments,bdMime)
            attachedEmail.SetFromMimeBd(bdMime)
            # Now your app can recursively process the attachedEmail...
        else:
            # Get the bytes of this MIME body part.
            bd = chilkat.CkBinData()
            email.GetNthBinaryPartOfTypeBd(i,searchSpec,inlineOnly,excludeAttachments,bd)
            print("Got binary body for " + sbContentType.getAsString() + " numBytes = " + str(bd.get_NumBytes()))

    sbContentType.Clear()
    i = i + 1