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Get an Attached Message as an Email Object

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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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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    //  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.
    var innerEmail = new chilkat.Email();
    innerEmail.Subject = "Embedded message";
    innerEmail.From = "alice@example.com";
    innerEmail.Body = "This is the embedded message.";

    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    email.Subject = "Has an attached message";
    success = email.AttachEmail(innerEmail);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(email.LastErrorText);
        return true;
    }

    //  Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
    var attached = new chilkat.Email();
    success = email.GetAttachedEmail(0,attached);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(email.LastErrorText);
        return true;
    }

    console.log("Attached email subject: " + attached.Subject);
    console.log("Attached email from: " + attached.From);

}

chilkatExample();