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Remove a Single Attached Message from an Email

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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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llSuccess = .F.

//  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.
loInnerEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
loInnerEmail.Subject = "Embedded message"
loInnerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"

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

? "NumAttachedMessages before = " + str(loEmail.NumAttachedMessages)

//  Remove the first attached message (index 0).
loEmail.RemoveAttachedMessage(0)

? "NumAttachedMessages after = " + str(loEmail.NumAttachedMessages)


release loInnerEmail
release loEmail