Access Attached Message (Embedded Email)

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

Download Chilkat Python Library

import sys
import chilkat

email = chilkat.CkEmail()

#  Load an email from a .eml

success = email.LoadEml("embeddedEmail.eml")
if (success != True):
    print email.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

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

numAttached = email.get_NumAttachedMessages()
print str(numAttached)

#  Get the 1st attached message.

email2 = email.GetAttachedMessage(0)
if (not (email2 == None )):

    #  Display the subject, From, and a header field...
    print email2.subject()
    print email2.ck_from()
    print email2.getHeaderField("X-SOMETHING")