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Access Attached Message (Embedded Email)

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

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C
#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmail email;
    int numAttached;
    HCkEmail email2;

    success = FALSE;

    email = CkEmail_Create();

    // Load an email from a .eml
    success = CkEmail_LoadEml(email,"embeddedEmail.eml");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    // Display how many attached emails are embedded within
    // this one:
    numAttached = CkEmail_getNumAttachedMessages(email);
    printf("numAttached = %d\n",numAttached);

    // Get the 1st attached message.
    email2 = CkEmail_Create();
    success = CkEmail_GetAttachedEmail(email,0,email2);
    if (success == TRUE) {

        // Display the subject, From, and a header field...
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_subject(email2));
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_ck_from(email2));
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_getHeaderField(email2,"X-SOMETHING"));
    }



    CkEmail_Dispose(email);
    CkEmail_Dispose(email2);

    }