Unicode C++

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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#include <CkEmailW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool 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.

    CkEmailW email;
    email.put_Subject(L"Save one attachment");

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

    //  Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
    success = email.SaveAttachedFile(0,L"qa_output/attachments");
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",email.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"Saved attachment 0.\n");

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