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Get a Header Field of an Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachmentHeader method, which returns the value of a named header field of an attachment. The first argument is the zero-based attachment index and the second is the MIME header-field name. This example reads the Content-Disposition header of the first attachment.

Background: Each attachment is a MIME part with its own header block. Where GetAttachmentAttr extracts a single named parameter, GetAttachmentHeader returns the entire value of a header field — for example the full Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="notes.txt" line. That is useful for inspecting or debugging exactly how a part is described, including any custom X- headers a sender may have added.

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var
email: TChilkatEmail;
disp: WideString;

begin
//  Demonstrates the GetAttachmentHeader method, which returns the value of a header field
//  (by name) of an attachment.  The first argument is the zero-based attachment index and the second is the
//  MIME header-field name.

email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
email.Subject := 'Attachment header field';

email.AddStringAttachment('notes.txt','Some notes.');

//  Get the Content-Disposition header of the first attachment (index 0).
disp := email.GetAttachmentHeader(0,'Content-Disposition');
Memo1.Lines.Add('Attachment 0 Content-Disposition: ' + disp);