(AutoIt) Bounced Email Handling

Demonstrates how to examine emails and detect which are bounced (automated) replies. Classifies each email according to the type of bounce.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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

$oBounce = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Bounce")

; The mailman object is used for receiving (POP3) 
; and sending (SMTP) email.
$oMailman = ObjCreate("Chilkat.MailMan")

; Set the POP3 server's hostname
$oMailman.MailHost = "mail.chilkatsoft.com"

; Set the POP3 login/password.
$oMailman.PopUsername = "myLogin"
$oMailman.PopPassword = "myPassword"

; Copy the all email from the user's POP3 mailbox 
; into a bundle object.  The email remains on the server.
; (There are other methods for deleting email from a POP3 server.)
Local $oBundle = $oMailman.CopyMail()
If ($oMailman.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oMailman.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

Local $i = 0
Local $oEmail
While $i < $oBundle.MessageCount
    $oEmail = $oBundle.GetEmail($i)

Local $bSuccess = $oBounce.ExamineEmail($oEmail)
    If ($bSuccess = False) Then
        ConsoleWrite($oBounce.LastErrorText & @CRLF)

        Exit
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 1) Then
        ; Hard bounce, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("Hard Bounce: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 2) Then
        ; Soft bounce, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("Soft Bounce: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 3) Then
        ; General bounce, no email address available.
        ConsoleWrite("General Bounce: No email address" & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 4) Then
        ; General bounce, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("General Bounce: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 5) Then
        ; Mail blocked, log the email address
        ; A bounce occured because the sender was blocked. 
        ConsoleWrite("Mail Blocked: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 6) Then
        ; Auto-reply, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("Auto-Reply: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 7) Then
        ; Transient (recoverable) Failure, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("Transient Failure: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 8) Then
        ; Subscribe request, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("Subscribe Request: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 9) Then
        ; Unsubscribe Request, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("Unsubscribe Request: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 10) Then
        ; Virus Notification, log the email address
        ConsoleWrite("Virus Notification: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 11) Then
        ; Suspected bounce.
        ; This should be rare.  It indicates that the Bounce
        ; component found strong evidence that this is a bounced
        ; email, but couldn't quite recognize everything it
        ; needed to be 100% sure.  Feel free to notify
        ; support@chilkatsoft.com regarding emails having this
        ; bounce type.
        ConsoleWrite("Suspected Bounce!" & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 12) Then
        ; Challenge/Response - Auto-reply message sent by SPAM software 
        ; where only verified email addresses are accepted. 
        ConsoleWrite("Challenge: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 13) Then
        ; Address Change Notification Message.
        ConsoleWrite("Address Change: " & $oBounce.BounceAddress & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    If ($oBounce.BounceType = 14) Then
        ; Success DSN indicating that the message was successfully relayed.
        ConsoleWrite("DSN Successful Relay: " & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    $i = $i + 1
Wend

$bSuccess = $oMailman.Pop3EndSession()