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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 'package:chilkat/chilkat.dart';

void main() {
  final email = CkEmail();

  // 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');
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    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:
  final xml = CkXml();

  // 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.tag = '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));

  final 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.
  final 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).
  final humanReadableExplanation = 'Blah blah blah.  Your message has been received and displayed. Blah blah blah';

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

  try {
    email.toMdn(humanReadableExplanation, xmlStr, bHeaderOnly, mdnEmail);
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Show the MIME of the source (original) email:
  print(email.getMime());

  print('**************************************');

  // Show the MIME of the MDN email:
  print(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--
  // 
  // 
}