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Delphi DLL

Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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Delphi DLL
var
success: Boolean;
email: HCkEmail;
i: Integer;

begin
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) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkEmail__lastErrorText(email));
    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.
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) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkEmail__lastErrorText(email));
    Exit;
  end;

//  List the attachment filenames:

for i := 0 to CkEmail_getNumAttachments(email) - 1 do
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkEmail__getAttachmentFilename(email,i));
  end;

CkEmail_Dispose(email);