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Save a Single Email Attachment to Disk

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given zero-based index to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them. This example adds an attachment and saves it.

Background: Where SaveAllAttachments writes every attachment at once, SaveAttachedFile saves just one by index — useful when you have inspected the attachments (by type, name, or size) and want to extract only a specific file. The attachment keeps its own filename; the same filename-safety considerations apply as when saving all of them.

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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Email

li_Success = 0

//  Demonstrates the SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given
//  zero-based index to a directory.  If the directory (or any of its components) does not
//  exist, Chilkat creates it.

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 = "Save one attachment"

loo_Email.AddStringAttachment("report.txt","Attachment content.")

//  Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
li_Success = loo_Email.SaveAttachedFile(0,"qa_output/attachments")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Email.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Email
    return
end if

Write-Debug "Saved attachment 0."

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


destroy loo_Email