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.

program ChilkatDemo;

// Demonstrates using the Chilkat Pascal wrapper via the C bridge DLL.
// Builds as a console application under Lazarus (FPC) or Delphi.

{$IFDEF FPC}
  {$MODE DELPHI}
{$ENDIF}
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  {$IFDEF UNIX}
  cthreads,
  {$ENDIF}
  SysUtils,
  CkDllLoader,
  Chilkat.Email;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

procedure RunDemo;
var
  success: Boolean;
  email: TEmail;

begin
  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.

  email := TEmail.Create;
  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) then
    begin
      WriteLn(email.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;

  WriteLn('Saved all attachments.');

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


  email.Free;

end;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

begin

  try
    RunDemo;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      WriteLn('Unhandled exception: ', E.ClassName, ': ', E.Message);
  end;

  WriteLn;
  {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}
  WriteLn('Press Enter to exit...');
  ReadLn;
  {$ENDIF}
end.