Chilkat2-Python
Chilkat2-Python
Attach an Email to Another Email
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AttachEmail method, which attaches a copy of another email to this email object. The attached email is encapsulated in a message/rfc822 subpart. Because a copy is attached, later changes to the source email do not affect the embedded message. This example attaches one email to another.
Background: "Forward as attachment" produces exactly this structure: the original message is embedded whole as a
message/rfc822 part rather than quoted into the body. This preserves the original's headers and formatting intact, which matters for forwarding to a mailbox that will re-parse it, or for reporting spam/phishing with the original evidence attached. Such parts are counted by NumAttachedMessages.Chilkat Chilkat2-Python Downloads
import sys
import chilkat2
success = False
# Demonstrates the AttachEmail method, which attaches a copy of another email to this email
# object. The attached email is encapsulated in a message/rfc822 subpart.
innerEmail = chilkat2.Email()
innerEmail.Subject = "Original message"
innerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
innerEmail.Body = "This is the original message being forwarded."
email = chilkat2.Email()
email.Subject = "FW: Original message"
email.From = "bob@example.com"
email.Body = "See the attached original email."
# Attach a copy of the inner email as a message/rfc822 part.
success = email.AttachEmail(innerEmail)
if (success == False):
print(email.LastErrorText)
sys.exit()
print("NumAttachedMessages = " + str(email.NumAttachedMessages))