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Get an Attached Message as an Email Object

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.

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llSuccess = .F.

//  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.
loInnerEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
loInnerEmail.Subject = "Embedded message"
loInnerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
loInnerEmail.Body = "This is the embedded message."

loEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
loEmail.Subject = "Has an attached message"
llSuccess = loEmail.AttachEmail(loInnerEmail)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    release loInnerEmail
    release loEmail
    return
endif

//  Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
loAttached = createobject("CkEmail")
llSuccess = loEmail.GetAttachedEmail(0,loAttached)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    release loInnerEmail
    release loEmail
    release loAttached
    return
endif

? "Attached email subject: " + loAttached.Subject
? "Attached email from: " + loAttached.From


release loInnerEmail
release loEmail
release loAttached