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Access Attached Message (Embedded Email)

How to access an email embedded within another email (i.e. an attached message).

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

$email = new CkEmail();

// Load an email from a .eml
$success = $email->LoadEml('embeddedEmail.eml');
if ($success == false) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Display how many attached emails are embedded within
// this one:
$numAttached = $email->get_NumAttachedMessages();
print 'numAttached = ' . $numAttached . "\n";

// Get the 1st attached message.
$email2 = new CkEmail();
$success = $email->GetAttachedEmail(0,$email2);
if ($success == true) {

    // Display the subject, From, and a header field...
    print $email2->subject() . "\n";
    print $email2->from() . "\n";
    print $email2->getHeaderField('X-SOMETHING') . "\n";
}


?>