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Remove All Attachments from an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.DropAttachments method, which removes all ordinary attachments from the in-memory message. Related items (inline images, style sheets) and attached message/rfc822 emails are not affected. This example adds two attachments, drops them, and prints the count before and after.

Background: Chilkat distinguishes three kinds of enclosed content: ordinary attachments (files meant to be saved), related items (resources that support the HTML display), and nested attached messages. DropAttachments targets only the first category — useful, for example, when forwarding or re-sending a message body without carrying its original file attachments along.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates the DropAttachments method, which removes all ordinary attachments from
# the email.  Related items and attached messages are not affected.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;
$email->Subject('Drop attachments example');

$email->AddStringAttachment('a.txt', 'first attachment');
$email->AddStringAttachment('b.txt', 'second attachment');
print 'NumAttachments before = ', $email->NumAttachments, "\n";

# Remove all attachments.
$email->DropAttachments();

print 'NumAttachments after = ', $email->NumAttachments, "\n";