JavaScript

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.

Note

This example is intended for running within a Chilkat.Js embedded JavaScript engine. All Chilkat JavaScript examples require Chilkat v11.4.0 or greater.

JavaScript

var success = false;

//  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.

var email = new CkEmail();
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 == false) {
    console.log(email.LastErrorText);
    return true;
}

console.log("Saved all attachments.");

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