(Objective-C) Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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#import <CkoEmail.h>

CkoEmail *email = [[CkoEmail alloc] init];

// Load an email object containing attachments.
// This .eml can be downloaded from:
// http://www.example-code.com/testData/HtmlEmail.eml
BOOL success;
success = [email LoadEml: @"HtmlEmail.eml"];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",email.LastErrorText);
    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.
email.OverwriteExisting = YES;

// 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 != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",email.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// List the attachment filenames:
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= [email.NumAttachments intValue] - 1; i++) {
    NSLog(@"%@",[email GetAttachmentFilename: [NSNumber numberWithInt: i]]);
}