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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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<?php

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

$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");
$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";

?>