Xojo Plugin

Save a Single Email Attachment to Disk

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given zero-based index to a directory. If the directory or any of its components do not exist, Chilkat creates them. This example adds an attachment and saves it.

Background: Where SaveAllAttachments writes every attachment at once, SaveAttachedFile saves just one by index — useful when you have inspected the attachments (by type, name, or size) and want to extract only a specific file. The attachment keeps its own filename; the same filename-safety considerations apply as when saving all of them.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

//  Demonstrates the SaveAttachedFile method, which saves the attachment at a given
//  zero-based index to a directory.  If the directory (or any of its components) does not
//  exist, Chilkat creates it.

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
email.Subject = "Save one attachment"

success = email.AddStringAttachment("report.txt","Attachment content.")

//  Save the attachment at index 0 into the specified directory.
success = email.SaveAttachedFile(0,"qa_output/attachments")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Saved attachment 0.")

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