PureBasic

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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IncludeFile "CkEmail.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    success.i = 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.

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

    CkEmail::setCkSubject(email, "Save one attachment")

    CkEmail::ckAddStringAttachment(email,"report.txt","Attachment content.")

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

    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.


    CkEmail::ckDispose(email)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure