(Delphi ActiveX) Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

Chilkat for Delphi Downloads Chilkat ActiveX DLL for Delphi Chilkat non-ActiveX DLL for Delphi * The examples here use the ActiveX DLL.

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Chilkat_TLB;

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procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
email: TChilkatEmail;
success: Integer;
i: Integer;

begin
email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);

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

success := email.LoadEml('HtmlEmail.eml');
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

// 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.
email.OverwriteExisting := 1;

// 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 := email.SaveAllAttachments('myAttachments');
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

// List the attachment filenames:

for i := 0 to email.NumAttachments - 1 do
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(email.GetAttachmentFilename(i));
  end;
end;