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Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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C
#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmail email;
    int i;

    success = FALSE;

    email = CkEmail_Create();

    //  Load an email object containing attachments.
    //  This .eml can be downloaded from:
    //  http://www.example-code.com/testData/HtmlEmail.eml

    success = CkEmail_LoadEml(email,"HtmlEmail.eml");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    //  If OverwriteExisting is turned on, files with the same
    //  name are overwritten.  If turned off, new/unique filenames
    //  are automatically generated.  The filenames actually saved
    //  are accessible via the GetAttachmentFilename method.
    CkEmail_putOverwriteExisting(email,TRUE);

    //  Save all attachments to the "myAttachments" subdirectory
    //  found under the calling process's current working directory.
    //  This directory is automatically created if it does not already
    //  exist.
    success = CkEmail_SaveAllAttachments(email,"myAttachments");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    //  List the attachment filenames:

    for (i = 0; i <= CkEmail_getNumAttachments(email) - 1; i++) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_getAttachmentFilename(email,i));
    }



    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }