VBScript

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

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.

set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Save all attachments"

success = email.AddStringAttachment("a.txt","first attachment")
success = email.AddStringAttachment("b.txt","second attachment")

'  Save every attachment into the specified directory.
success = email.SaveAllAttachments("qa_output/attachments")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Saved all attachments.")

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

outFile.Close