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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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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

#  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 = chilkat.CkEmail()
innerEmail.put_Subject("Embedded message")
innerEmail.put_From("alice@example.com")

email = chilkat.CkEmail()
email.put_Subject("Has an attached message")
success = email.AttachEmail(innerEmail)
if (success == False):
    print(email.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("NumAttachedMessages before = " + str(email.get_NumAttachedMessages()))

#  Remove the first attached message (index 0).
email.RemoveAttachedMessage(0)

print("NumAttachedMessages after = " + str(email.get_NumAttachedMessages()))