(PowerShell) 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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$email = New-Object Chilkat.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 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 = $email.LoadEml("someEmail.eml")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# 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 = New-Object Chilkat.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.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))

$xmlStr = $xml.GetXml()

# 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 = $email.CreateMdn($humanReadableExplanation,$xmlStr,$bHeaderOnly)
if ($email.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Show the MIME of the source (original) email:
$($email.GetMime())

$("**************************************")

# Show the MIME of the MDN email:
$($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--
# 
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