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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

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  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 CkEmail();
$innerEmail->put_Subject('Embedded message');
$innerEmail->put_From('alice@example.com');
$innerEmail->put_Body('This is the embedded message.');

$email = new CkEmail();
$email->put_Subject('Has an attached message');
$success = $email->AttachEmail($innerEmail);
if ($success == false) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
$attached = new CkEmail();
$success = $email->GetAttachedEmail(0,$attached);
if ($success == false) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Attached email subject: ' . $attached->subject() . "\n";
print 'Attached email from: ' . $attached->from() . "\n";

?>