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Remove All Attachments from an Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.DropAttachments method, which removes all ordinary attachments from the in-memory message. Related items (inline images, style sheets) and attached message/rfc822 emails are not affected. This example adds two attachments, drops them, and prints the count before and after.

Background: Chilkat distinguishes three kinds of enclosed content: ordinary attachments (files meant to be saved), related items (resources that support the HTML display), and nested attached messages. DropAttachments targets only the first category — useful, for example, when forwarding or re-sending a message body without carrying its original file attachments along.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

'  Demonstrates the DropAttachments method, which removes all ordinary attachments from
'  the email.  Related items and attached messages are not affected.

set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Drop attachments example"

success = email.AddStringAttachment("a.txt","first attachment")
success = email.AddStringAttachment("b.txt","second attachment")
outFile.WriteLine("NumAttachments before = " & email.NumAttachments)

'  Remove all attachments.
email.DropAttachments 

outFile.WriteLine("NumAttachments after = " & email.NumAttachments)

outFile.Close