Perl

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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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  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 = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_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 == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Saved all attachments." . "\r\n";

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