(PowerShell) Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email

# 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 -ne $true) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# 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 -ne $true) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# List the attachment filenames:

for ($i = 0; $i -le $email.NumAttachments - 1; $i++) {
    $($email.GetAttachmentFilename($i))
}