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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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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

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

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

    console.log("NumAttachedMessages before = " + email.NumAttachedMessages);

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

    console.log("NumAttachedMessages after = " + email.NumAttachedMessages);

}

chilkatExample();