PHP ActiveX

Remove a Single Attached Message from an Email

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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<?php

$success = 0;

//  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.
$innerEmail = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$innerEmail->Subject = 'Embedded message';
$innerEmail->From = 'alice@example.com';

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$email->Subject = 'Has an attached message';
$success = $email->AttachEmail($innerEmail);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $email->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

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

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

?>