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Create MDN (Message Disposition Notification) Email

Demonstrates how to create a MDN (Message Disposition Notification) Email having the format as defined in RFC 3798.

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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();

        // An MDN can be used to notify the
        // sender of a message of any of several conditions that may occur after
        // successful delivery, such as display of the message contents,
        // printing of the message, deletion (without display) of the message,
        // or the recipient's refusal to provide MDNs.
        // (for more information, see RFC 3798)

        // IMPORTANT:
        // Note: Please be careful in sending automated MDN'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 ToMdn method is called to create a new
        // MDN email based upon the email object calling ToMdn.
        // The email object instance used to call ToMdn 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 MDN for "someEmail.eml"
        try {
            email.loadEml("someEmail.eml");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // The MDN created by ToMdn will contain a
        // "message/disposition-notification" MIME sub-part that will
        // be composed of a number of name-value pairs.
        // See RFC 3798  ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3798 )
        // The name-value content for this part is passed
        // as XML to ToMdn. 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 -- they are simply for the example.
        xml.setTag("DispositionFields");
        xml.newChild2("Disposition", "manual-action/MDN-sent-manually; displayed");
        xml.newChild2("Original-Message-ID", email.getHeaderField("Message-ID"));
        xml.newChild2("Final-Recipient", email.getToAddr(0));

        String xmlStr = xml.getXml();

        // The last argument to be passed to ToMdn will be a boolean
        // indicating whether to include the entire MIME of the calling
        // email object in the MDN, 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 MDN header-only.
        boolean bHeaderOnly = true;

        // The first argument to be passed to ToMdn will
        // be a human-readable explanation that will be placed
        // into the 1st MIME part of the MDN (see RFC 3798).
        String humanReadableExplanation = "Blah blah blah.  Your message has been received and displayed. Blah blah blah";

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

        try {
            email.toMdn(humanReadableExplanation, xmlStr, bHeaderOnly, mdnEmail);
        } 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 MDN email:
        System.out.println(mdnEmail.getMime());

        // Sample output showing the MIME of the original email,
        // and the MDN 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=disposition-notification;
        //      boundary="------------000802010206080606030808"
        //
        // --------------000802010206080606030808
        // Content-Type: text/plain
        // Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
        //
        // Blah blah blah.  Your message has been received and displayed. Blah blah blah
        // --------------000802010206080606030808
        // Content-Type: message/disposition-notification
        //
        // Disposition: manual-action/MDN-sent-manually; displayed
        // Original-Message-ID: <4E009AA4.3090205@chilkatsoft.com>
        // Final-Recipient: support@chilkatsoft.com
        //
        // --------------000802010206080606030808
        // 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
        // --------------000802010206080606030808--
        //
        //
    }
}