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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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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Demonstrates the DropAttachments method, which removes all ordinary attachments from
        // the email.  Related items and attached messages are not affected.

        Email email = new Email();
        email.setSubject("Drop attachments example");

        email.addStringAttachment("a.txt", "first attachment");
        email.addStringAttachment("b.txt", "second attachment");
        System.out.println("NumAttachments before = " + email.getNumAttachments());

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

        System.out.println("NumAttachments after = " + email.getNumAttachments());
    }
}