SQL Server

Get Contents of a T-Mobile Text Message (as Email)

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How to get the contents of an email that originated as a T-Mobile SMS text.

SQL Server

-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    -- First, for the purpose of understanding the structure of the MIME,
    -- let's load the MIME into a Chilkat MIME object and examine the MIME structure.
    DECLARE @mime int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Mime', @mime OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'LoadMimeFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/eml/TMobileTextMsg.eml'
    -- Show the MIME structure in text format (as opposed to XML format).
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mime, 'GetStructure', @sTmp0 OUT, 'text'
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- The MIME structure for our test email looks like this:
    -- multipart/related
    --     text/html
    --     text/plain
    --     image/gif
    --     image/gif
    --     image/gif

    -- The HTML part is not considered a "related item" because the related items
    -- are defined as being related to the HTML part.  Therefore, we should always
    -- expect to find a text/html part under a multipart/related.  The HTML parts
    -- is simply the HTML body, and the other parts are the related items.
    -- If the text/plain part was to be considered as an alternative body,
    -- then a properly structured email would include a multipart/alternative structure.

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'LoadEml', @success OUT, 'qa_data/eml/TMobileTextMsg.eml'

    -- We should see 4 related items.

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'NumRelatedItems', @iTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'Num Related Items = ' + @iTmp0
    -- There should be 0 attachments.  

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'NumAttachments', @iTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'Num Attachments = ' + @iTmp0

    -- Find the indices of the text/plain related part, and the text/html related part
    DECLARE @i int
    SELECT @i = 0
    DECLARE @numRelatedItems int
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'NumRelatedItems', @numRelatedItems OUT
    DECLARE @sbContentType int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringBuilder', @sbContentType OUT

    WHILE @i < @numRelatedItems
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'GetRelatedContentType', @sTmp0 OUT, @i
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbContentType, 'Append', @success OUT, @sTmp0

        EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbContentType, 'GetAsString', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @i + ': ' + @sTmp0
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbContentType, 'ContentsEqual', @iTmp0 OUT, 'text/plain', 0
        IF @iTmp0
          BEGIN

            PRINT '---- text/plain part:'
            EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'GetRelatedString', @sTmp0 OUT, @i, 'utf-8'
            PRINT @sTmp0
          END

        EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbContentType, 'Clear', NULL
        SELECT @i = @i + 1
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @mime
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbContentType


END
GO