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Save All Email Attachments to a Directory

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAllAttachments method, which saves all of the email's attachments to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them automatically. This example adds two attachments and saves them.

Background: Each attachment is written using its own filename. Because those filenames come from the sender and may collide, consider the OverwriteExisting property (which can auto-generate unique names) and RemoveAttachmentPaths (which strips embedded path info) to keep saved files safe and non-clobbering — important when processing untrusted incoming mail.

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IncludeFile "CkEmail.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    success.i = 0

    ;  Demonstrates the SaveAllAttachments method, which saves all attachments to a directory.
    ;  If the directory (or any of its components) does not exist, Chilkat creates it.

    email.i = CkEmail::ckCreate()
    If email.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    CkEmail::setCkSubject(email, "Save all attachments")

    CkEmail::ckAddStringAttachment(email,"a.txt","first attachment")
    CkEmail::ckAddStringAttachment(email,"b.txt","second attachment")

    ;  Save every attachment into the specified directory.
    success = CkEmail::ckSaveAllAttachments(email,"qa_output/attachments")
    If success = 0
        Debug CkEmail::ckLastErrorText(email)
        CkEmail::ckDispose(email)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    Debug "Saved all attachments."

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


    CkEmail::ckDispose(email)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure