Access Attached Message (Embedded Email)

How to access an email embedded within another email (i.e. an attached message).

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email2")

'  Load an email from a .eml

success = email.LoadEml("embeddedEmail.eml")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write email.LastErrorText & "<br>"

End If

'  Display how many attached emails are embedded within
'  this one:

numAttached = email.NumAttachedMessages
Response.Write numAttached & "<br>"

'  Get the 1st attached message.

Set email2 = email.GetAttachedMessage(0)
If (Not (email2 Is Nothing )) Then

    '  Display the subject, From, and a header field...
    Response.Write email2.Subject & "<br>"
    Response.Write email2.From & "<br>"
    Response.Write email2.GetHeaderField("X-SOMETHING") & "<br>"
End If


%>
</body>
</html>

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