Perl

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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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.
my $innerEmail = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$innerEmail->Subject('Embedded message');
$innerEmail->From('alice@example.com');
$innerEmail->Body('This is the embedded message.');

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('Has an attached message');
my $success = $email->AttachEmail($innerEmail);
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
my $attached = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$success = $email->GetAttachedEmail(0, $attached);
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Attached email subject: ', $attached->Subject, "\n";
print 'Attached email from: ', $attached->From, "\n";