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Remove All Attachments from an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.DropAttachments method, which removes all ordinary attachments from the in-memory message. Related items (inline images, style sheets) and attached message/rfc822 emails are not affected. This example adds two attachments, drops them, and prints the count before and after.

Background: Chilkat distinguishes three kinds of enclosed content: ordinary attachments (files meant to be saved), related items (resources that support the HTML display), and nested attached messages. DropAttachments targets only the first category — useful, for example, when forwarding or re-sending a message body without carrying its original file attachments along.

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#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    //  Demonstrates the DropAttachments method, which removes all ordinary attachments from
    //  the email.  Related items and attached messages are not affected.

    CkEmail email;
    email.put_Subject("Drop attachments example");

    email.AddStringAttachment("a.txt","first attachment");
    email.AddStringAttachment("b.txt","second attachment");
    std::cout << "NumAttachments before = " << email.get_NumAttachments() << "\r\n";

    //  Remove all attachments.
    email.DropAttachments();

    std::cout << "NumAttachments after = " << email.get_NumAttachments() << "\r\n";
    }