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Count the Attached Messages in an Email

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Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumAttachedMessages property, which is the number of embedded emails represented by message/rfc822 MIME parts. These are counted separately from ordinary attachments and related items, and their indexes are zero-based. This example builds an inner email, attaches it to an outer email as a nested message, and prints the count.

Background: When you "forward as attachment," many mail clients embed the original message as a complete nested email rather than quoting its text. In MIME this appears as a message/rfc822 part — an entire email (its own headers and body) tucked inside the carrier message. Chilkat distinguishes three kinds of enclosed content: ordinary attachments (NumAttachments), inline related items (NumRelatedItems), and these nested messages (NumAttachedMessages). Use GetAttachedEmail to pull an embedded message into its own Email object.

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<?php

$success = 0;

//  Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumAttachedMessages property, which is the
//  number of embedded emails (message/rfc822 MIME parts) contained in the email.

//  Create an inner email that we'll attach as a complete nested message.
$innerEmail = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$innerEmail->Subject = 'I am an attached message';
$innerEmail->Body = 'This entire email is nested inside another email.';
$innerEmail->From = 'alice@example.com';
$innerEmail->AddTo('Bob','bob@example.com');

//  Create the outer email and attach the inner email directly as a
//  message/rfc822 part.  AttachEmail attaches a copy of the inner email.
$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'Outer email with an attached message';
$email->Body = 'See the attached email.';
$success = $email->AttachEmail($innerEmail);

print 'NumAttachedMessages = ' . $email->NumAttachedMessages . "\n";


?>