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Saves email attachments to a directory.

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<%
' Create a MailMan or Imap object first for the purpose
' of unlocking the component. (Only one is necessary)
set mailman = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.MailMan2")
mailman.UnlockComponent "anything for 30-day trial"
set imap = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")
imap.UnlockComponent "anything for 30-day trial"

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email2")

' Load an email object containing attachments.
' This .eml can be downloaded from:
' http://www.example-code.com/testData/HtmlEmail.eml

success = email.LoadEml("HtmlEmail.eml")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write email.LastErrorText & "<br>"

End If

' If OverwriteExisting is turned on, files with the same
' name are overwritten.  If turned off, new/unique filenames
' are automatically generated.  The filenames actually saved
' are accessible via the GetAttachmentFilename method.
email.OverwriteExisting = 1

' Save all attachments to the "myAttachments" subdirectory
' found under the calling process's current working directory.
' This directory is automatically created if it does not already
' exist.
success = email.SaveAllAttachments("myAttachments")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write email.LastErrorText & "<br>"

End If

' List the attachment filenames:

For i = 0 To email.NumAttachments - 1
    Response.Write email.GetAttachmentFilename(i) & "<br>"
Next
%>
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