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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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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oEmail

nSuccess := 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.

oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
oEmail:Subject := "Save all attachments"

oEmail:AddStringAttachment("a.txt", "first attachment")
oEmail:AddStringAttachment("b.txt", "second attachment")

//  Save every attachment into the specified directory.
nSuccess := oEmail:SaveAllAttachments("qa_output/attachments")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oEmail:LastErrorText
    oEmail:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "Saved all attachments."

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

oEmail:destroy()