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Access Attached Message (Embedded Email)

How to access an email embedded within another email (i.e. an attached message).

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Chilkat2 Java
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        boolean success = false;

        Email email = new Email();

        // Load an email from a .eml
        try {
            email.loadEml("embeddedEmail.eml");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Display how many attached emails are embedded within
        // this one:
        int numAttached = email.getNumAttachedMessages();
        System.out.println("numAttached = " + numAttached);

        // Get the 1st attached message.
        Email email2 = new Email();
        try {
            email.getAttachedEmail(0, email2);
            success = true;
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            success = false;
        }
        if (success) {
            // Display the subject, From, and a header field...
            System.out.println(email2.getSubject());
            System.out.println(email2.getFrom());
            System.out.println(email2.getHeaderField("X-SOMETHING"));
        }
    }
}