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 strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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.

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

$email->AddStringAttachment('a.txt', 'first attachment');
$email->AddStringAttachment('b.txt', 'second attachment');

# Save every attachment into the specified directory.
my $success = $email->SaveAllAttachments('qa_output/attachments');
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Saved all attachments.\n";

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