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Add a Custom Header to an Email Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddAttachmentHeader method, which adds a custom MIME header field to an existing attachment identified by its zero-based index. This example adds an attachment (which becomes index 0), then attaches an extra header field to it and prints the resulting MIME.

Background: In MIME, every attachment is itself a mini-message with its own small block of headers — things like Content-Type, Content-Disposition, and Content-Transfer-Encoding that describe that specific part. AddAttachmentHeader lets you insert additional fields into that per-part header block, which is occasionally needed for interoperability with systems that look for custom X- headers or content identifiers on individual attachments.

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integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Email

//  Demonstrates the AddAttachmentHeader method, which adds a custom MIME header field to
//  an existing attachment, identified by its zero-based index.

loo_Email = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Email.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Email
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
loo_Email.Subject = "Attachment with a custom header"
loo_Email.Body = "The attachment has an extra MIME header."

//  Add an attachment; it becomes attachment index 0.
loo_Email.AddStringAttachment("data.txt","Attachment body.")

//  Add a custom header field to the first attachment (index 0).
loo_Email.AddAttachmentHeader(0,"X-Custom-Attachment-Header","some value")

//  The custom header now appears in the attachment's MIME part.
Write-Debug loo_Email.GetMime()


destroy loo_Email