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Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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Java
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    // 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) {
        System.out.println(email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // 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.put_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) {
        System.out.println(email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // List the attachment filenames:
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i <= email.get_NumAttachments() - 1; i++) {
        System.out.println(email.getAttachmentFilename(i));
        }
  }
}