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Enumerate the Header Fields of an Email

Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumHeaderFields property together with GetHeaderFieldName and GetHeaderFieldValue to enumerate every header field. Indexing is zero-based, so fields run from 0 to NumHeaderFields - 1. Repeated header fields (a field name that appears more than once) are counted separately. This example builds a small email and prints each header field.

Background: A header field is a single Name: value line at the top of a MIME message. The same field name can legitimately appear multiple times — for example, a message can carry several Received lines, one added by each mail server it passed through. That is why enumerating by index (rather than looking up by name) matters: it lets you see every occurrence in the order it appears.

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LOCAL oEmail
LOCAL n
LOCAL i

//  Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumHeaderFields property and enumerating each
//  header field by zero-based index using GetHeaderFieldName and GetHeaderFieldValue.

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Header field enumeration"
oEmail:From := "mary@example.com"
oEmail:AddTo("Joe", "joe@example.com")

n := oEmail:NumHeaderFields
? "NumHeaderFields = " + Str(n)

FOR i := 0 TO n - 1
    ? oEmail:GetHeaderFieldName(i) + ": " + oEmail:GetHeaderFieldValue(i)
NEXT

oEmail:destroy()