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Remove a Single Related Item from an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.DropRelatedItem method, which removes the related item at a given zero-based index. A related item is typically an embedded image or style sheet referenced from the HTML body (via a cid: link or Content-Location). This example adds a related style sheet, then removes it by index, printing the count before and after.

Background: Related items live in the message's multipart/related enclosure and are indexed from 0 to NumRelatedItems - 1. Removing one by index is useful when editing a received message — for example stripping a tracking pixel or an unwanted embedded image — while leaving the HTML body and any other related resources in place. To remove them all at once, use DropRelatedItems.

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'  Demonstrates the DropRelatedItem method, which removes the related item at a given
'  zero-based index.  A related item is typically an embedded image or style sheet
'  referenced from the HTML body.

Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize

'  Set an HTML body that references a related style sheet by name (Content-Location).
email.SetHtmlBody("<html><head><link rel=" & Chr(34) & "stylesheet" & Chr(34) & " href=" & Chr(34) & "styles.css" & Chr(34) & "/></head><body>Styled.</body></html>")

'  Add the related item (becomes index 0).
email.AddRelatedString2("styles.css", "body { color: navy; }", "utf-8")
Log("NumRelatedItems before = " & email.NumRelatedItems)

'  Remove the related item at index 0.
email.DropRelatedItem(0)

Log("NumRelatedItems after = " & email.NumRelatedItems)