Unicode C

Add a Custom Header to an Email Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddAttachmentHeader method, which adds a custom MIME header field to an existing attachment identified by its zero-based index. This example adds an attachment (which becomes index 0), then attaches an extra header field to it and prints the resulting MIME.

Background: In MIME, every attachment is itself a mini-message with its own small block of headers — things like Content-Type, Content-Disposition, and Content-Transfer-Encoding that describe that specific part. AddAttachmentHeader lets you insert additional fields into that per-part header block, which is occasionally needed for interoperability with systems that look for custom X- headers or content identifiers on individual attachments.

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#include <C_CkEmailW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmailW email;

    //  Demonstrates the AddAttachmentHeader method, which adds a custom MIME header field to
    //  an existing attachment, identified by its zero-based index.

    email = CkEmailW_Create();
    CkEmailW_putSubject(email,L"Attachment with a custom header");
    CkEmailW_putBody(email,L"The attachment has an extra MIME header.");

    //  Add an attachment; it becomes attachment index 0.
    CkEmailW_AddStringAttachment(email,L"data.txt",L"Attachment body.");

    //  Add a custom header field to the first attachment (index 0).
    CkEmailW_AddAttachmentHeader(email,0,L"X-Custom-Attachment-Header",L"some value");

    //  The custom header now appears in the attachment's MIME part.
    wprintf(L"%s\n",CkEmailW_getMime(email));


    CkEmailW_Dispose(email);

    }