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Get the Content-Type of an Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAttachmentContentType method, which returns the Content-Type header field for the Nth attachment. Attachment indexing begins at 0. This example adds an attachment and reads its content type.

Background: The Content-Type (MIME type) of an attachment — such as text/plain, application/pdf, or image/png — tells a mail client how to handle the part: whether to display it inline, offer it as a download, or pick an icon for it. Reading it lets your program filter or route attachments by type, for example extracting only the PDFs from a batch of messages.

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

#  Demonstrates the GetAttachmentContentType method, which returns the Content-Type header
#  field for the Nth attachment.  The index is zero-based.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Attachment content type"

$email.AddStringAttachment("notes.txt","Some notes.")

#  Get the Content-Type of the first attachment (index 0).
$ct = $email.GetAttachmentContentType(0)
$("Attachment 0 Content-Type: " + $ct)