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Save All Email Attachments to a Directory

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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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function chilkatExample() {

    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 chilkat.Email();
    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.

}

chilkatExample();