B4X

Save All Email Attachments to a Directory

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAllAttachments method, which saves all of the email's attachments to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them automatically. This example adds two attachments and saves them.

Background: Each attachment is written using its own filename. Because those filenames come from the sender and may collide, consider the OverwriteExisting property (which can auto-generate unique names) and RemoveAttachmentPaths (which strips embedded path info) to keep saved files safe and non-clobbering — important when processing untrusted incoming mail.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Demonstrates the SaveAllAttachments method, which saves all attachments to a directory.
'  If the directory (or any of its components) does not exist, Chilkat creates it.

Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize
email.Subject = "Save all attachments"

email.AddStringAttachment("a.txt", "first attachment")
email.AddStringAttachment("b.txt", "second attachment")

'  Save every attachment into the specified directory.
success = email.SaveAllAttachments("qa_output/attachments")
If success = False Then
    Log(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Log("Saved all attachments.")

'  Note: The path "qa_output/..." is a relative local filesystem path,
'  relative to the current working directory of the running application.