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Get an Attached Message as an Email Object

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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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Dim success As Boolean
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.
Dim innerEmail As New Chilkat.Email
innerEmail.Subject = "Embedded message"
innerEmail.From = "alice@example.com"
innerEmail.Body = "This is the embedded message."

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "Has an attached message"
success = email.AttachEmail(innerEmail)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Copy the first embedded message (index 0) into its own Email object.
Dim attached As New Chilkat.Email
success = email.GetAttachedEmail(0,attached)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Attached email subject: " + attached.Subject)
System.DebugLog("Attached email from: " + attached.From)