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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.

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llSuccess = .F.

//  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.

loEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
loEmail.Subject = "Save all attachments"

loEmail.AddStringAttachment("a.txt","first attachment")
loEmail.AddStringAttachment("b.txt","second attachment")

//  Save every attachment into the specified directory.
llSuccess = loEmail.SaveAllAttachments("qa_output/attachments")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    release loEmail
    return
endif

? "Saved all attachments."

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


release loEmail