Visual Basic 6.0

Change the Filename of an Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetAttachmentFilename method, which changes the filename of the attachment at a given zero-based index. This example adds an attachment and renames it, printing the filename before and after.

Background: The attachment filename is what a recipient sees and what most clients suggest when saving the file. Renaming it is handy when the original name is unclear, unsafe, or generic — for example giving a machine-generated tmp12345 a meaningful name like invoice.pdf before sending.

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Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the SetAttachmentFilename method, which changes the filename of the
'  attachment at the given zero-based index.

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
email.Subject = "Set attachment filename"

success = email.AddStringAttachment("oldname.txt","Some notes.")
Debug.Print "Filename before: " & email.GetAttachmentFilename(0)

'  Change the filename of the first attachment (index 0).
success = email.SetAttachmentFilename(0,"newname.txt")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Filename after: " & email.GetAttachmentFilename(0)