Get the Content-ID of an Attachment

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachmentContentID method, which returns the Content-ID header field for the Nth attachment. The index is zero-based, so the first attachment is 0. This example adds an attachment and reads its Content-ID (which may be empty when none was assigned).

Background: A Content-ID is a unique identifier for a MIME part. It is essential for inline "related" resources, where HTML references an image by cid:, but ordinary file attachments usually have none. Reading it is useful when inspecting how a message is assembled, or when distinguishing parts that are referenced from the body versus those meant purely as downloadable attachments.

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    //  Demonstrates the GetAttachmentContentID method, which returns the Content-ID header
    //  field for the Nth attachment.  The index is zero-based (the first attachment is 0).

    email := chilkat.NewEmail()
    email.SetSubject("Attachment Content-ID")

    email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

    //  Get the Content-ID of the first attachment (may be empty if none was assigned).
    cid := email.GetAttachmentContentID(0)
    fmt.Println("Attachment 0 Content-ID: ", *cid)

    email.DisposeEmail()