Classic ASP
Classic ASP
Count the Attached Messages in an Email
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Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumAttachedMessages property, which is the number of embedded emails represented by message/rfc822 MIME parts. These are counted separately from ordinary attachments and related items, and their indexes are zero-based. This example builds an inner email, attaches it to an outer email as a nested message, and prints the count.
Background: When you "forward as attachment," many mail clients embed the original message as a complete nested email rather than quoting its text. In MIME this appears as a
message/rfc822 part — an entire email (its own headers and body) tucked inside the carrier message. Chilkat distinguishes three kinds of enclosed content: ordinary attachments (NumAttachments), inline related items (NumRelatedItems), and these nested messages (NumAttachedMessages). Use GetAttachedEmail to pull an embedded message into its own Email object.Chilkat Classic ASP Downloads
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success = 0
' Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumAttachedMessages property, which is the
' number of embedded emails (message/rfc822 MIME parts) contained in the email.
' Create an inner email that we'll attach as a complete nested message.
set innerEmail = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
innerEmail.Subject = "I am an attached message"
innerEmail.Body = "This entire email is nested inside another email."
innerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
success = innerEmail.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
' Create the outer email and attach the inner email directly as a
' message/rfc822 part. AttachEmail attaches a copy of the inner email.
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Outer email with an attached message"
email.Body = "See the attached email."
success = email.AttachEmail(innerEmail)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "NumAttachedMessages = " & email.NumAttachedMessages) & "</pre>"
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