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Saves email attachments to a directory.

' Create a MailMan or Imap object first for the purpose
' of unlocking the component. (Only one is necessary)
Dim mailman As New ChilkatMailMan2
mailman.UnlockComponent "anything for 30-day trial"
Dim imap As New ChilkatImap
imap.UnlockComponent "anything for 30-day trial"

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail2

' Load an email object containing attachments.
' This .eml can be downloaded from:
' http://www.example-code.com/testData/HtmlEmail.eml
Dim success As Integer
success = email.LoadEml("HtmlEmail.eml")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
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
    MsgBox email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' List the attachment filenames:
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To email.NumAttachments - 1
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & email.GetAttachmentFilename(i) & vbCrLf
    Text1.Refresh
Next