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Get an Attached Message as an Email Object

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachedEmail method, which copies the Nth embedded message/rfc822 MIME part into another Email object. The index is zero-based (valid values run from 0 through NumAttachedMessages - 1). This example attaches an email and then extracts it back into its own object.

Background: When a message forwards another email as an attachment, that nested message is a complete email in its own right. GetAttachedEmail turns it back into a fully navigable Email object so you can read its subject, sender, body, and even its own attachments — essential for processing forwarded mail, or for tools that unpack reported spam/phishing to examine the original.

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Local $bSuccess = False

;  Demonstrates the GetAttachedEmail method, which copies the Nth embedded message/rfc822
;  MIME part into another Email object.  The index is zero-based.

;  Build an inner email and attach it to an outer email.
$oInnerEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
$oInnerEmail.Subject = "Embedded message"
$oInnerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
$oInnerEmail.Body = "This is the embedded message."

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
$oEmail.Subject = "Has an attached message"
$bSuccess = $oEmail.AttachEmail($oInnerEmail)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
$oAttached = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
$bSuccess = $oEmail.GetAttachedEmail(0,$oAttached)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Attached email subject: " & $oAttached.Subject & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Attached email from: " & $oAttached.From & @CRLF)