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Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.
Note
This example is intended for running within a Chilkat.Js embedded JavaScript engine. All Chilkat JavaScript examples require Chilkat v11.4.0 or greater.
JavaScript
var success = false;

var email = new CkEmail();

//  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 !== true) {
    console.log(email.LastErrorText);
    return true;
}

//  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 = 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 = email.SaveAllAttachments("myAttachments");
if (success !== true) {
    console.log(email.LastErrorText);
    return true;
}

//  List the attachment filenames:
var i;
for (i = 0; i <= email.NumAttachments - 1; i++) {
    console.log(email.GetAttachmentFilename(i));
}