MailReport.ReportType Property

Gets delivery type.

[Visual Basic 6.0]
Public Property Get ReportType() As Long

[Visual C++]
public: get_ReportType(LONG* pVal);

Property Value

A Integer value indicating the delivery type. 
Const FailureReport = 0 'Specifies that the email is a failure delivery report.
Const DeliveryReceipt = 1 'Specifies that the email is a delivery success report(delivery receipt).
Const ReadReceipt = 2 'Specifies that the email is a read receipt.

Read Receipt

Some e-mail applications, such as Microsoft Office Outlook, employ a read-receipt tracking mechanism. The sender selects the receipt request option prior to sending the message, and then upon sending, each recipient has the option of notifying the sender that the message was read by the recipient.
However, requesting a receipt does not guarantee that you will get one, for several reasons. Very few e-mail applications or services support read receipts, and users can generally disable the functionality if they so wish. Those that do support it aren't necessarily compatible with or capable of recognizing requests from a different e-mail service or application.

Delivery Receipt and FailureReport

It is also called a DSN (delivery service notification), which is a request to the recipients email server to send you a notification about the delivery of an email you've just sent. The notification takes the form of an email, and will tell you if your delivery succeeded(Delivery Receipt), failed, got delayed(Failure Report).

Remarks

If ReporType is DeliveryReceipt or ReadReceipt, the report probably has only OriginalSender, OriginalRecipient and OriginalMessageID information in the report, it depends the mail server that generated the report.

Example

[Visual Basic, Visual C++] The following example demonstrates how to parse the delivery report with EAGetMail POP3 & IMAP4 ActiveX Object. To get the full samples of EAGetMail, please refer to Samples section. 

[Visual Basic 6.0]
Private Sub ParseReport(emlFile As String)

    Const FailureReport = 0
    Const DeliveryReceipt = 1
    Const ReadReceipt = 2

    Dim oMail As New EAGetMailObjLib.Mail
    oMail.LicenseCode = "TryIt"
    oMail.LoadFile emlFile, False

    If Not oMail.IsReport Then
        MsgBox "this is not a report"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Dim oReport As EAGetMailObjLib.MailReport
    Set oReport = oMail.GetReport()
    //get report type
    Select Case oReport.ReportType
    Case DeliveryReceipt
        MsgBox "This is a deliver receipt"
    Case ReadReceipt
        MsgBox "This is a read receipt"
    Case Else
        MsgBox "This is a failure report"
    End Select

    //get original message information
    MsgBox oReport.OriginalSender
    MsgBox oReport.OriginalRecipient
    MsgBox oReport.OriginalMessageID

    
    If oReport.ReportType = FailureReport Then
        MsgBox oReport.ErrCode
        MsgBox oReport.ErrDescription
        MsgBox oReport.OriginalSubject
        MsgBox oReport.ReportMTA
        
        Dim oHeaders As EAGetMailObjLib.HeaderCollection
        Set oHeaders = oReport.OriginalHeaders
        Dim i, nCount As Integer
        nCount = oHeaders.Count
        For i = 0 To nCount - 1
            Dim oHeader As EAGetMailObjLib.HeaderItem
            Set oHeader = oHeaders.Item(i)
            MsgBox oHeader.HeaderKey & ": " & oHeader.HeaderValue
        Next
    End If

End Sub

[VBScript]
Sub ParseReport( emlFile )

    Const FailureReport = 0
    Const DeliveryReceipt = 1
    Const ReadReceipt = 2

    Dim oMail
    Set oMail = CreateObject("EAGetMailObj.Mail")
    oMail.LicenseCode = "TryIt"
    oMail.LoadFile emlFile, False

    If Not oMail.IsReport Then
        MsgBox "this is not a report"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Dim oReport
    Set oReport = oMail.GetReport()
    //get report type
    Select Case oReport.ReportType
    Case DeliveryReceipt
        MsgBox "This is a deliver receipt"
    Case ReadReceipt
        MsgBox "This is a read receipt"
    Case Else
        MsgBox "This is a failure report"
    End Select

    //get original message information
    MsgBox oReport.OriginalSender
    MsgBox oReport.OriginalRecipient
    MsgBox oReport.OriginalMessageID

    
    If oReport.ReportType = FailureReport Then
        MsgBox oReport.ErrCode
        MsgBox oReport.ErrDescription
        MsgBox oReport.OriginalSubject
        MsgBox oReport.ReportMTA
        
        Dim oHeaders
        Set oHeaders = oReport.OriginalHeaders
        Dim i, nCount As Integer
        nCount = oHeaders.Count
        For i = 0 To nCount - 1
            Dim oHeader
            Set oHeader = oHeaders.Item(i)
            MsgBox oHeader.HeaderKey & ": " & oHeader.HeaderValue
        Next
               
    End If

End Sub

[Visual C++]
#include "eagetmailobj.tlh"
using namespace EAGetMailObjLib;

void ParseReport( LPCTSTR lpszEmlFile )
{
    const int FailureReport = 0;
    const int DeliveryReceipt = 1;
    const int ReadReceipt = 2;

    IMailPtr oMail;
    oMail.CreateInstance( "EAGetMailObj.Mail" );
    oMail->LicenseCode = _T("TryIt");
    oMail->LoadFile( lpszEmlFile, VARIANT_FALSE );

    if( oMail->IsReport == VARIANT_FALSE )
    {
        _tprintf( _T("This is not a report"));
        return;
    }

     //get report type
    IMailReportPtr oReport = oMail->GetReport();
    switch( oReport->ReportType )
    {
    case DeliveryReceipt:
        _tprintf( _T("This is a delivery receipt\r\n"));
        break;
    case ReadReceipt:
        _tprintf( _T("This is a read receipt\r\n"));
        break;
    default:
        _tprintf( _T("This is a failure delivery report\r\n"));
        break;

    }

    //get original message information
    _tprintf( _T("OriginalSender: %s\r\n"), (TCHAR*)oReport->OriginalSender );
    _tprintf( _T("OriginalRecipient: %s\r\n"), (TCHAR*)oReport->OriginalRecipient );
    _tprintf( _T("OriginalMessageID: %s\r\n"),(TCHAR*)oReport->OriginalMessageID );

    if( oReport->ReportType == FailureReport )
    {
        _tprintf( _T("ErrCode: %s\r\n"), (TCHAR*)oReport->ErrCode);
        _tprintf( _T("ErrDescription: %s\r\n") (TCHAR*)oReport->ErrDescription );
        _tprintf( _T("OriginalSubject: %s\r\n") (TCHAR*)oReport->OriginalSubject );
        _tprintf( _T("ReportMTA: %s\r\n") (TCHAR*)oReport->ReportMTA );
        
        IHeaderCollectionPtr oHeaders;
        oHeaders = oReport->OriginalHeaders;
        int count = oHeaders->Count;
        for( int i = 0; i < count; i++ )
        {
            IHeaderItemPtr oHeader;
            oHeader = oHeaders->Item(i);
            ::_tprintf( _T("%s: %s\r\n"), (TCHAR*)oHeader->HeaderKey, (TCHAR*)oHeader->HeaderValue );
        }   
    }
}