Unpack HTML Email to Files

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This example demonstrates how to use Chilkat Email + Chilkat MHT to unpack an HTML email to HTML files where the image and style sheet URLs within the HTML are updated to reference the image and style sheet files that are created.

    ' Unpack HTML email to an HTML file.  All embedded images
    ' and style sheets are written to files in a sub-directory.  The links
    ' within the HTML are updated to reference the extracted files.
    
    ' First, unlock the components that are needed.  This example
    ' requires a license to both the email and MHT components.
    Dim mailman As New ChilkatMailMan2
    mailman.UnlockComponent "Anything for 30-day trial"
    
    Dim mht As New ChilkatMHT
    mht.UnlockComponent "Anything for 30-day trial"
    
    ' Load an HTML email from a .eml file.
    Dim email As New ChilkatEmail2
    email.LoadEml "htmlEmail.eml"
    
    ' Unpack the email to "unpackDir/myEmail.html".   Images and style sheets
    ' are written to the "unpackDir/images" subdirectory.  All directories
    ' are automatically created if not already existing.
    mht.UnpackMhtStr email.GetMime(), "unpackDir", "myEmail.html", "images"