Java

Remove a Single Attached Message from an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.RemoveAttachedMessage method, which removes the Nth message/rfc822 sub-part (an attached email) from the message. Indexing begins at 0. This example attaches an email, removes it, and prints the attached-message count before and after.

Background: Attached messages (forwarded emails carried as message/rfc822 parts) are counted and indexed separately from ordinary file attachments and related items. RemoveAttachedMessage targets just one nested email by index — useful, for example, when trimming a bundled digest or stripping a forwarded original before re-sending.

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

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Demonstrates the RemoveAttachedMessage method, which removes the Nth message/rfc822
        // sub-part (attached email) of the email.  The index is zero-based.

        // Build an inner email and attach it to an outer email.
        Email innerEmail = new Email();
        innerEmail.setSubject("Embedded message");
        innerEmail.setFrom("alice@example.com");

        Email email = new Email();
        email.setSubject("Has an attached message");
        try {
            email.attachEmail(innerEmail);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("NumAttachedMessages before = " + email.getNumAttachedMessages());

        // Remove the first attached message (index 0).
        email.removeAttachedMessage(0);

        System.out.println("NumAttachedMessages after = " + email.getNumAttachedMessages());
    }
}