(Excel) Parsing a Multipart/Digest Email

This example demonstrates how to parse a multipart/digest email. An email parsed by this sample could have a MIME structure as follows:

multipart/mixed
    text/plain
    text/plain
    multipart/digest
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
        message/rfc822
    text/plain

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' Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.66 or greater.


emlPath = "qa_data/eml/multipart_digest.eml"

Dim email As Chilkat.Email
Set email = Chilkat.NewEmail

' For this example, we'll load the email from a .eml.
' The email could alternatively be loaded as a result of downloading from an IMAP or POP3 server..


success = email.LoadEml(emlPath)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If


numDigests = email.NumDigests
Debug.Print "num digests = "; numDigests


i = 0
Do While i < numDigests

    Set eDigest = email.GetDigest(i)
    Debug.Print i; ":"; eDigest.FromAddress; ", "; eDigest.Subject

    m = eDigest.GetHeaderField("Message")
    If (eDigest.LastMethodSuccess = True) Then
        Debug.Print "    Message = "; m
    End If

    i = i + 1
Loop