Ruby

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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require 'chilkat'

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 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
innerEmail.put_Subject("Embedded message")
innerEmail.put_From("alice@example.com")
innerEmail.put_Body("This is the embedded message.")

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
email.put_Subject("Has an attached message")
success = email.AttachEmail(innerEmail)
if (success == false)
    print email.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
attached = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
success = email.GetAttachedEmail(0,attached)
if (success == false)
    print email.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Attached email subject: " + attached.subject() + "\n";
print "Attached email from: " + attached.ck_from() + "\n";