Access Attached Message (Embedded Email)

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

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require 'chilkat'

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()

#  Load an email from a .eml

success = email.LoadEml("embeddedEmail.eml")
if (success != true)
    print email.lastErrorText() + "\n"
    exit
end

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

numAttached = email.get_NumAttachedMessages()
print numAttached.to_s() + "\n"

#  Get the 1st attached message.

email2 = email.GetAttachedMessage(0)
if (!(email2 == nil ))

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