SQL Server

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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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 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.

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @email, 'Subject', 'Save all attachments'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'AddStringAttachment', @success OUT, 'a.txt', 'first attachment'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'AddStringAttachment', @success OUT, 'b.txt', 'second attachment'

    --  Save every attachment into the specified directory.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'SaveAllAttachments', @success OUT, 'qa_output/attachments'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        RETURN
      END


    PRINT 'Saved all attachments.'

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

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email


END
GO