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Create DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email

Demonstrates how to create a DSN (Delivery Status Notification) Email having the format as defined in RFC 3464.

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- A DSN email is a report about the attempt to delivery 
    -- an email.  It is usually a report that indicates failure or
    -- or a delay in delivery.  The DSN is typically sent back to
    -- the sender of an email.

    -- IMPORTANT:
    -- Note: Please be careful in sending automated DSN'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 ToDsn method will be called to create a new
    -- DSN email based upon the email object calling ToDsn.
    -- The email object instance used to call ToDsn 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 DSN for "someEmail.eml"
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'LoadEml', @success OUT, 'someEmail.eml'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        RETURN
      END

    -- The DSN created by ToDsn will contain a 
    -- "message/delivery-status" MIME sub-part that will
    -- be composed of a number of name-value pairs.
    -- See RFC 3464 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3464 )
    -- The name-value content for this part is passed
    -- as XML to ToDsn. This part of the example
    -- prepares the XML:
    DECLARE @xml int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Xml', @xml OUT

    -- For this example, we're just adding a few name-value pairs.
    -- These should not be considered to be correct, required or
    -- even sensible -- it's simply for the example.  
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @xml, 'Tag', 'DeliveryStatusFields'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'NewChild2', NULL, 'Status', '5.1.2 (bad destination system: no such domain)'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'NewChild2', NULL, 'Diagnostic-Code', 'smtp; Permanent failure: no such domain'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'NewChild2', NULL, 'X-BounceCategory', 'bad-domain'

    DECLARE @xmlStr nvarchar(4000)
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'GetXml', @xmlStr OUT

    -- The last argument to be passed to ToDsn will be a boolean
    -- indicating whether to include the entire MIME of the calling
    -- email object in the DSN, 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 DSN header-only.
    DECLARE @bHeaderOnly int
    SELECT @bHeaderOnly = 1

    -- The first argument to be passed to ToDsn will
    -- be a human-readable explanation that will be placed
    -- into the 1st MIME part of the DSN (see RFC 3464).
    DECLARE @humanReadableExplanation nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @humanReadableExplanation = 'Blah blah blah. The delivery of this email failed. Blah blah blah'

    -- OK, we're ready to create DSN....
    DECLARE @dsnEmail int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @dsnEmail OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'ToDsn', @success OUT, @humanReadableExplanation, @xmlStr, @bHeaderOnly, @dsnEmail
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @xml
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @dsnEmail
        RETURN
      END

    -- Show the MIME of the source (original) email:
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'GetMime', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0


    PRINT '**************************************'

    -- Show the MIME of the DSN email:
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @dsnEmail, 'GetMime', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- Sample output showing the MIME of the original email,
    -- and the DSN 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=delivery-status;
    -- 	 boundary="------------070202040604030701060106"
    -- 
    -- --------------070202040604030701060106
    -- Content-Type: text/plain
    -- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    -- 
    -- Blah blah blah. The delivery of this email failed. Blah blah blah
    -- --------------070202040604030701060106
    -- Content-Type: message/delivery-status
    -- 
    -- Status: 5.1.2 (bad destination system: no such domain)
    -- Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Permanent failure: no such domain
    -- X-BounceCategory: bad-domain
    -- 
    -- --------------070202040604030701060106
    -- 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
    -- --------------070202040604030701060106--
    -- 
    -- 

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @xml
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @dsnEmail


END
GO