Swift

Get a Digest Message as an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetDigestEmail method, which copies the Nth digest email contained within a multipart/digest into another Email object. The first digest is at index 0; the NumDigests property gives the count. This example loads a digest email and lists each bundled message's subject.

Background: A multipart/digest packs many separate emails into one carrier message — historically used by mailing lists to send a single daily bundle of that day's posts. GetDigestEmail unpacks each member into a full Email object so it can be read or processed individually. This differs from GetAttachedEmail, which extracts messages attached to an ordinary email rather than the members of a digest.

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func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    //  Demonstrates the GetDigestEmail method, which copies the Nth digest email contained
    //  within a multipart/digest into another Email object.  The first digest is at index 0;
    //  use the NumDigests property for the count.

    let email = CkoEmail()!

    success = email.loadEml(mimePath: "qa_data/eml/digest.eml")
    if success == false {
        print("\(email.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    var n: Int = email.numDigests.intValue
    print("NumDigests = \(n)")

    //  Retrieve each bundled message as its own Email object.
    let digestEmail = CkoEmail()!
    var i: Int
    for i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++ {
        success = email.getDigest(index: i, email: digestEmail)
        print("Digest \(i) subject: \(digestEmail.subject!)")
    }

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

}