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Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email

Demonstrates how to create a DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email having the format as defined in RFC 3464.

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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Xml;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Email email = new Email();

        // A DSN email is a report about the attempt to delivery
        // an email.  It is usually a report that indicates failure or
        // or a delay in delivery.  The DSN is typically sent back to
        // the sender of an email.

        // IMPORTANT:
        // Note: Please be careful in sending automated DSN's.
        // It is important to be aware of an issue called "backscatter".
        // See the Wikipedia article here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28e-mail%29

        // The ToDsn method will be called to create a new
        // DSN email based upon the email object calling ToDsn.
        // The email object instance used to call ToDsn would
        // typically be an email received from a POP3 or IMAP server.
        // In this case, to simplify the example, we'll load the email
        // from a .eml file.

        // This example will be creating a DSN for "someEmail.eml"
        try {
            email.loadEml("someEmail.eml");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // The DSN created by ToDsn will contain a
        // "message/delivery-status" MIME sub-part that will
        // be composed of a number of name-value pairs.
        // See RFC 3464 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3464 )
        // The name-value content for this part is passed
        // as XML to ToDsn. This part of the example
        // prepares the XML:
        Xml xml = new Xml();

        // For this example, we're just adding a few name-value pairs.
        // These should not be considered to be correct, required or
        // even sensible -- it's simply for the example.
        xml.setTag("DeliveryStatusFields");
        xml.newChild2("Status", "5.1.2 (bad destination system: no such domain)");
        xml.newChild2("Diagnostic-Code", "smtp; Permanent failure: no such domain");
        xml.newChild2("X-BounceCategory", "bad-domain");

        String xmlStr = xml.getXml();

        // The last argument to be passed to ToDsn will be a boolean
        // indicating whether to include the entire MIME of the calling
        // email object in the DSN, or only the header.
        // It may make sense to include the entire email for small emails,
        // but for large emails (with large attachments) it's probably
        // best to make the DSN header-only.
        boolean bHeaderOnly = true;

        // The first argument to be passed to ToDsn will
        // be a human-readable explanation that will be placed
        // into the 1st MIME part of the DSN (see RFC 3464).
        String humanReadableExplanation = "Blah blah blah. The delivery of this email failed. Blah blah blah";

        // OK, we're ready to create DSN....
        Email dsnEmail = new Email();

        try {
            email.toDsn(humanReadableExplanation, xmlStr, bHeaderOnly, dsnEmail);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Show the MIME of the source (original) email:
        System.out.println(email.getMime());

        System.out.println("**************************************");

        // Show the MIME of the DSN email:
        System.out.println(dsnEmail.getMime());

        // Sample output showing the MIME of the original email,
        // and the DSN email created based upon it:

        // X-Account-Key: account2
        // X-UIDL: 0D154945439D42BD80F180F6D9DE4D82
        // Received: with MailEnable Postoffice Connector;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:23 -0400
        // Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.227.212]) by chilkatsoft.com with MailEnable ESMTP;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:22 -0400
        // Received: from omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.196.30.27]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yd4k1g0050b6N64AEdLW9x;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:30 +0000
        // Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([67.175.202.103]) by omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ydLV1g00n2EMkZ78PdLWxi;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:31 +0000
        // Message-ID: <4E009AA4.3090205@chilkatsoft.com>
        // Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:20:36 -0500
        // From: Chilkat Software <admin@chilkatsoft.com>
        // User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
        // MIME-Version: 1.0
        // To: Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>
        // Subject: test 123
        // Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
        // Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
        // Return-Path: <>
        // X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110621-0, 06/21/2011), Inbound message
        // X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
        //
        // This is a test 123
        //
        //
        //
        // **************************************
        // Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
        //      boundary="------------070202040604030701060106"
        //
        // --------------070202040604030701060106
        // Content-Type: text/plain
        // Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
        //
        // Blah blah blah. The delivery of this email failed. Blah blah blah
        // --------------070202040604030701060106
        // Content-Type: message/delivery-status
        //
        // Status: 5.1.2 (bad destination system: no such domain)
        // Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Permanent failure: no such domain
        // X-BounceCategory: bad-domain
        //
        // --------------070202040604030701060106
        // Content-Type: text/rfc822-headers
        //
        // X-Account-Key: account2
        // X-UIDL: 0D154945439D42BD80F180F6D9DE4D82
        // Received: with MailEnable Postoffice Connector;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:23 -0400
        // Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.227.212]) by chilkatsoft.com with MailEnable ESMTP;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:21:22 -0400
        // Received: from omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.196.30.27]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yd4k1g0050b6N64AEdLW9x;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:30 +0000
        // Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([67.175.202.103]) by omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ydLV1g00n2EMkZ78PdLWxi;
        //      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:31 +0000
        // Message-ID: <4E009AA4.3090205@chilkatsoft.com>
        // Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:20:36 -0500
        // From: Chilkat Software <admin@chilkatsoft.com>
        // User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
        // MIME-Version: 1.0
        // To: Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>
        // Subject: test 123
        // Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
        // Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
        // Return-Path: <>
        // X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110621-0, 06/21/2011), Inbound message
        // X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
        // --------------070202040604030701060106--
        //
        //
    }
}