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Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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React Native
import { Email } from '@chilkat/react-native'

function chilkatExample() {
  const email = new Email();

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

  try {
    email.loadEml('HtmlEmail.eml');
  } catch {
    console.log(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 = 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.
  try {
    email.saveAllAttachments('myAttachments');
  } catch {
    console.log(email.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // List the attachment filenames:
  for (let i = 0; i < email.numAttachments; i++) {
    console.log(email.getAttachmentFilename(i));
  }
}