(SQL Server) Access Attached Message (Embedded Email)

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

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Load an email from a .eml
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'LoadEml', @success OUT, 'embeddedEmail.eml'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        RETURN
      END

    -- Display how many attached emails are embedded within
    -- this one:
    DECLARE @numAttached int
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'NumAttachedMessages', @numAttached OUT

    PRINT 'numAttached = ' + @numAttached

    -- Get the 1st attached message.
    DECLARE @email2 int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email2 OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'GetAttachedEmail', @success OUT, 0, @email2
    IF @success = 1
      BEGIN

        -- Display the subject, From, and a header field...
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email2, 'Subject', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email2, 'From', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @email2, 'GetHeaderField', @sTmp0 OUT, 'X-SOMETHING'
        PRINT @sTmp0
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email2


END
GO