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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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LOCAL oEmail

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

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Drop attachments example"

oEmail:AddStringAttachment("a.txt", "first attachment")
oEmail:AddStringAttachment("b.txt", "second attachment")
? "NumAttachments before = " + Str(oEmail:NumAttachments)

//  Remove all attachments.
oEmail:DropAttachments()

? "NumAttachments after = " + Str(oEmail:NumAttachments)

oEmail:destroy()