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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Drop attachments example"

$email.AddStringAttachment("a.txt","first attachment")
$email.AddStringAttachment("b.txt","second attachment")
$("NumAttachments before = " + $email.NumAttachments)

#  Remove all attachments.
$email.DropAttachments()

$("NumAttachments after = " + $email.NumAttachments)