Chilkat2-Python
Chilkat2-Python
Get an Attached Message as an Email Object
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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.Chilkat Chilkat2-Python Downloads
import sys
import chilkat2
success = 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.
innerEmail = chilkat2.Email()
innerEmail.Subject = "Embedded message"
innerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
innerEmail.Body = "This is the embedded message."
email = chilkat2.Email()
email.Subject = "Has an attached message"
success = email.AttachEmail(innerEmail)
if (success == False):
print(email.LastErrorText)
sys.exit()
# Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
attached = chilkat2.Email()
success = email.GetAttachedEmail(0,attached)
if (success == False):
print(email.LastErrorText)
sys.exit()
print("Attached email subject: " + attached.Subject)
print("Attached email from: " + attached.From)