(Delphi DLL) 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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uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Email, Xml;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
email: HCkEmail;
success: Boolean;
xml: HCkXml;
xmlStr: PWideChar;
bHeaderOnly: Boolean;
humanReadableExplanation: PWideChar;
mdnEmail: HCkEmail;

begin
email := CkEmail_Create();

// 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 CreateMdn method is called to create a new
// MDN email based upon the email object calling CreateMdn.
// The email object instance used to call CreateMdn 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"
success := CkEmail_LoadEml(email,'someEmail.eml');
if (success <> True) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkEmail__lastErrorText(email));
    Exit;
  end;

// The MDN created by CreateMdn 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 CreateMdn. This part of the example
// prepares the XML:
xml := CkXml_Create();

// 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.  
CkXml_putTag(xml,'DispositionFields');
CkXml_NewChild2(xml,'Disposition','manual-action/MDN-sent-manually; displayed');
CkXml_NewChild2(xml,'Original-Message-ID',CkEmail__getHeaderField(email,'Message-ID'));
CkXml_NewChild2(xml,'Final-Recipient',CkEmail__getToAddr(email,0));

xmlStr := CkXml__getXml(xml);

// The last argument to be passed to CreateMdn 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.
bHeaderOnly := True;

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

// OK, we're ready to create MDN...

mdnEmail := CkEmail_CreateMdn(email,humanReadableExplanation,xmlStr,bHeaderOnly);
if (CkEmail_getLastMethodSuccess(email) = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkEmail__lastErrorText(email));
    Exit;
  end;

// Show the MIME of the source (original) email:
Memo1.Lines.Add(CkEmail__getMime(email));

Memo1.Lines.Add('**************************************');

// Show the MIME of the MDN email:
Memo1.Lines.Add(CkEmail__getMime(mdnEmail));

CkEmail_Dispose(mdnEmail);

// 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--
// 
// 

CkEmail_Dispose(email);
CkXml_Dispose(xml);

end;