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Load .eml and Examine the Structure, Attachments, and Related Items

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Demonstrates how to load examine the MIME structure of a .eml, and also examine the attachment and related item filenames, attached messages, and multipart/report and DSN information. CkPython

import sys
import chilkat

success = False

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

emlPath = "C:/AAWorkarea/beatrix/roesner.eml"

mime = chilkat.CkMime()

success = mime.LoadMimeFile(emlPath)
if (success == False):
    print(mime.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("---- MIME structure ----")
print(mime.getStructure("text"))
print("------------------------")

email = chilkat.CkEmail()
success = email.LoadEml(emlPath)

# Was this a signed and/or encrypted email?
# If so, then loading the .eml automatically unwraps
# (i.e. verifies signatures and decrypts) and the resultant
# email is what existed prior to signing/encrypting.
print("Email was Signed: " + str(email.get_ReceivedSigned()))
print("Email was Encrypted: " + str(email.get_ReceivedEncrypted()))
if (email.get_ReceivedSigned() == True):
    print("Signature(s) valid = " + str(email.get_SignaturesValid()))

if (email.get_ReceivedEncrypted() == True):
    print("Decrypted successfully = " + str(email.get_Decrypted()))

i = 0
numAttach = email.get_NumAttachments()
print("Number of attachments = " + str(numAttach))

while i < numAttach :
    print("---- Attachment " + str(i))

    # Examine the filename (if any)
    print("filename: " + email.getAttachmentFilename(i))
    # Examine the content-ID (if any)
    print("Content-ID: " + email.getAttachmentContentID(i))
    # Examine the content-type
    print("Content-Type: " + email.getAttachmentContentType(i))
    # Examine the content-disposition
    print("Content-Disposition" + email.getAttachmentHeader(i,"content-disposition"))
    # Examine the attachment size:
    print("Size (in bytes) of the attachment: " + str(email.GetAttachmentSize(i)))

    i = i + 1

print("--")

# Now for the related items.

# Note: A MIME sub-part can potentially be both a related item AND an attachment.
# The typical case is when the item is contained under the multipart/related enclosure and 
# the item also has a "Content-Disposition" header indicating "attachment".
# The location within multipart/related makes it a "related item", yet the Content-Disposition can also make it semantically an attachment.
# Related items and attachments are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

numRelated = email.get_NumRelatedItems()
print("Number of related items = " + str(numRelated))
i = 0
while i < numRelated :
    print("---- Related Item " + str(i))

    # Examine the filename (if any)
    print("filename: " + email.getRelatedFilename(i))
    # Examine the content-ID (if any)
    print("Content-ID: " + email.getRelatedContentID(i))
    # Examine the content-type
    print("Content-Type: " + email.getRelatedContentType(i))
    # Examine the content-location (if any)
    print("Content-Location" + email.getRelatedContentLocation(i))

    i = i + 1

# The email could also have attached messages.
# An attached message is another email that was attached to this email.
em = chilkat.CkEmail()
numAttachedMessages = email.get_NumAttachedMessages()
print("Number of attached messages = " + str(numAttachedMessages))
i = 0
while i < numAttachedMessages :
    print("---- Attached message " + str(i))

    # Examine the attached email
    email.GetAttachedEmail(i,em)
    print("from: " + em.ck_from())
    print("subject: " + em.subject())
    i = i + 1

# An email could also be a multipart/report email. 
# This is a DSN (Delivery Status Notification)
# The NumReports property indicates how many "reports" exist.
numReports = email.get_NumReports()
print("Number of reports = " + str(numReports))
i = 0
while i < numReports :
    print("---- Report " + str(i))
    # Get the raw report data...
    print(email.getReport(i))
    i = i + 1

# If the email is a multipart/report, then the information
# from the message/delivery-status part of the email can be retrieved:
if (email.IsMultipartReport() == True):

    print("--- Delivery Status Information:")
    print("Status: " + email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Status"))
    print("Action: " + email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Action"))
    print("Reporting-MTA: " + email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Reporting-MTA"))

    jsonDsnInfo = chilkat.CkJsonObject()
    email.GetDsnInfo(jsonDsnInfo)
    jsonDsnInfo.put_EmitCompact(False)
    print(jsonDsnInfo.emit())