Ruby

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. Ruby

require '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.new()

success = mime.LoadMimeFile(emlPath)
if (success == false)
    print mime.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "---- MIME structure ----" + "\n";
print mime.getStructure("text") + "\n";
print "------------------------" + "\n";

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
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: " + email.get_ReceivedSigned().to_s() + "\n";
print "Email was Encrypted: " + email.get_ReceivedEncrypted().to_s() + "\n";
if (email.get_ReceivedSigned() == true)
    print "Signature(s) valid = " + email.get_SignaturesValid().to_s() + "\n";
end

if (email.get_ReceivedEncrypted() == true)
    print "Decrypted successfully = " + email.get_Decrypted().to_s() + "\n";
end

i = 0
numAttach = email.get_NumAttachments()
print "Number of attachments = " + numAttach.to_s() + "\n";

while i < numAttach
    print "---- Attachment " + i.to_s() + "\n";

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

    i = i + 1
end
print "--" + "\n";

# 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 = " + numRelated.to_s() + "\n";
i = 0
while i < numRelated
    print "---- Related Item " + i.to_s() + "\n";

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

    i = i + 1
end

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

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

# 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 = " + numReports.to_s() + "\n";
i = 0
while i < numReports
    print "---- Report " + i.to_s() + "\n";
    # Get the raw report data...
    print email.getReport(i) + "\n";
    i = i + 1
end

# 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:" + "\n";
    print "Status: " + email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Status") + "\n";
    print "Action: " + email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Action") + "\n";
    print "Reporting-MTA: " + email.getDeliveryStatusInfo("Reporting-MTA") + "\n";

    jsonDsnInfo = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
    email.GetDsnInfo(jsonDsnInfo)
    jsonDsnInfo.put_EmitCompact(false)
    print jsonDsnInfo.emit() + "\n";
end