Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning.   Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes.  […]

Explaining Email Return Receipts and Disposition-Notification-To

November 4, 2024 in Email

Disposition-Notification-To Email Header The “Disposition-Notification-To” email header is used to request a return receipt or read receipt from the recipient’s email client. When this header is present, the recipient’s email client may send a notification back to the sender indicating that the email was received, opened, or processed in some way. How It Works: The […]

Multiple Reply-To Email Addresses

November 4, 2024 in Email

Is it Possible for an Email to Have Multiple “Reply-To” Addresses? Yes, it is technically possible for an email to have multiple “Reply-To” addresses. The “Reply-To” header in an email can list multiple email addresses separated by commas, similar to the “To” or “Cc” headers. This is defined by the RFC 5322 standard, which governs […]

New Example Showing How to Process a Multipart/Report Email

July 10, 2023 in Uncategorized

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BCC Email Addresses Should Never be in “BCC” MIME Headers

July 9, 2023 in Uncategorized

In the context of email communication, the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) field is used to send a copy of an email to recipients without revealing their addresses to other recipients. When it comes to the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) header of an email, the BCC email addresses should not be included. The MIME header […]

Quickly Understanding the MIME Format of Email

June 14, 2023 in Email

The format of email is MIME. A simple MIME message consists of headers followed by a body.  For example, here’s a simple text/plain email: From: sender@example.com To: recipient@example.com Subject: Example Email Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”UTF-8″ Hello, This is a simple plain text email. Regards, Sender MIME can be multipart. Here’s a text/plain email with a PDF […]

Handling Emails with Unusual or Unconventional MIME Structure

June 13, 2023 in Uncategorized

In rare cases, an email’s MIME might be structured in a way that is highly unusual and doesn’t follow conventions. In other words, the nested MIME structure of an email should follow conventions that make it possible to semantically understand the purpose of each MIME part — such as an attachment, or an image to […]