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Get a Header Attribute of an Attached Message

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachedMessageAttr method, which returns a header-field attribute value for the Nth attached (embedded) email. The first argument is the zero-based attached-message index, the second is the header field name, and the third is the attribute name. This example attaches an email and reads the filename attribute of its Content-Disposition header.

Background: MIME header fields can carry named attributes (parameters) after the main value — for example Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="report.eml", where filename is an attribute. Rather than parsing the raw header yourself, this method extracts a single named attribute from a chosen header of a specific embedded message, which is convenient when a message forwards other emails as nested message/rfc822 parts.

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var
success: Integer;
innerEmail: TChilkatEmail;
email: TChilkatEmail;
fname: WideString;

begin
success := 0;

//  Demonstrates the GetAttachedMessageAttr method, which returns a header-field attribute
//  value for the Nth attached (embedded) email.  The first argument is the zero-based
//  attached-message index, the second is the header field name, and the third is the attribute name.

//  Build an inner email to attach.
innerEmail := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
innerEmail.Subject := 'Embedded message';
innerEmail.From := 'alice@example.com';
innerEmail.AddTo('Bob','bob@example.com');

//  Attach it to an outer email as a message/rfc822 part.
email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
email.Subject := 'Has an attached message';
success := email.AttachEmail(innerEmail.ControlInterface);
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Get the "filename" attribute of the "Content-Disposition" header of the first
//  attached message (index 0).
fname := email.GetAttachedMessageAttr(0,'Content-Disposition','filename');
Memo1.Lines.Add('Attached message filename attribute: ' + fname);