Java

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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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // 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 email = new Email();
        email.setSubject("Save one attachment");

        email.addStringAttachment("report.txt", "Attachment content.");

        // Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
        try {
            email.saveAttachedFile(0, "qa_output/attachments");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Saved attachment 0.");

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