PHP

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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<?php

use Chilkat2\Email;

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

$email = new Email();
$email->Subject = 'Has an attached message';
try {
    $email->AttachEmail($innerEmail);

    // Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
    $attached = new Email();
    $email->GetAttachedEmail(0, $attached);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

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