Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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<?php

//  Create a MailMan or Imap object first for the purpose
//  of unlocking the component. (Only one is necessary)
$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan2");
$mailman->UnlockComponent('anything for 30-day trial');
$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");
$imap->UnlockComponent('anything for 30-day trial');

$email = new COM("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 != true) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  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 = true;

//  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 != true) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  List the attachment filenames:

for ($i = 0; $i <= $email->NumAttachments - 1; $i++) {
    print $email->getAttachmentFilename($i) . "\n";
}

?>