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Attach Email as message/rfc822 sub-part to an Email

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Demonstrates how to add attach a message/rfc822 email to another email.

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Chilkat2-Python
import chilkat2

success = False

# In this example, we'll attach an email loaded from a .eml file to a new email.

fac = chilkat2.FileAccess()
# emlBytes is a memoryview
emlBytes = fac.ReadEntireFile("qa_data/eml/simple.eml")

email = chilkat2.Email()
email.Subject = "This is a test email with an attached email."
email.Body = "Test with attached email."
email.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")
email.From = "mary@example.com"

success = email.AttachMessage(emlBytes)

print(email.GetMime())

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Alternatively, we could do this:
emailToBeAttached = chilkat2.Email()
success = emailToBeAttached.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/simple.eml")

email2 = chilkat2.Email()
email2.Subject = "This is a test email with an attached email."
email2.Body = "Test with attached email."
email2.AddTo("Joe","joe@example.com")
email2.From = "mary@example.com"

# emlBytes2 is a memoryview
emlBytes2 = emailToBeAttached.GetMimeBinary()
success = email2.AttachMessage(emlBytes2)

print("----")

print(email2.GetMime())