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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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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

#  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 = chilkat.CkEmail()
email.put_Subject("Save one attachment")

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

#  Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
success = email.SaveAttachedFile(0,"qa_output/attachments")
if (success == False):
    print(email.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("Saved attachment 0.")

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