Delphi ActiveX

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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var
success: Integer;
email: TChilkatEmail;

begin
success := 0;

//  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.

email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
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 = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('Saved all attachments.');

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