Perl

Get the Content-ID of an Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachmentContentID method, which returns the Content-ID header field for the Nth attachment. The index is zero-based, so the first attachment is 0. This example adds an attachment and reads its Content-ID (which may be empty when none was assigned).

Background: A Content-ID is a unique identifier for a MIME part. It is essential for inline "related" resources, where HTML references an image by cid:, but ordinary file attachments usually have none. Reading it is useful when inspecting how a message is assembled, or when distinguishing parts that are referenced from the body versus those meant purely as downloadable attachments.

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use chilkat();

#  Demonstrates the GetAttachmentContentID method, which returns the Content-ID header
#  field for the Nth attachment.  The index is zero-based (the first attachment is 0).

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Attachment Content-ID");

$email->AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.");

#  Get the Content-ID of the first attachment (may be empty if none was assigned).
$cid = $email->getAttachmentContentID(0);
print "Attachment 0 Content-ID: " . $cid . "\r\n";