Delphi ActiveX

Save a Single Email Attachment to Disk

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given zero-based index to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them. This example adds an attachment and saves it.

Background: Where SaveAllAttachments writes every attachment at once, SaveAttachedFile saves just one by index — useful when you have inspected the attachments (by type, name, or size) and want to extract only a specific file. The attachment keeps its own filename; the same filename-safety considerations apply as when saving all of them.

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var
success: Integer;
email: TChilkatEmail;

begin
success := 0;

//  Demonstrates the SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given
//  zero-based index to a directory.  If the directory (or any of its components) does not
//  exist, Chilkat creates it.

email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
email.Subject := 'Save one attachment';

email.AddStringAttachment('report.txt','Attachment content.');

//  Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
success := email.SaveAttachedFile(0,'qa_output/attachments');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('Saved attachment 0.');

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