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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.Chilkat PHP Extension Downloads
<?php
include("chilkat.php");
$success = false;
// 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 CkEmail();
$innerEmail->put_Subject('I am an attached message');
$innerEmail->put_Body('This entire email is nested inside another email.');
$innerEmail->put_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 CkEmail();
$email->put_Subject('Outer email with an attached message');
$email->put_Body('See the attached email.');
$success = $email->AttachEmail($innerEmail);
print 'NumAttachedMessages = ' . $email->get_NumAttachedMessages() . "\n";
?>