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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 Ruby Downloads
require 'chilkat'
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 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
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 = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()
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().to_s() + "\n";