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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 AutoIt Downloads
Local $bSuccess = False
; 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.
$oInnerEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
$oInnerEmail.Subject = "I am an attached message"
$oInnerEmail.Body = "This entire email is nested inside another email."
$oInnerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
$oInnerEmail.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.
$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
$oEmail.Subject = "Outer email with an attached message"
$oEmail.Body = "See the attached email."
$bSuccess = $oEmail.AttachEmail($oInnerEmail)
ConsoleWrite("NumAttachedMessages = " & $oEmail.NumAttachedMessages & @CRLF)