SQL Server

Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory. SQL Server

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

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

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'LoadEml', @success OUT, 'HtmlEmail.eml'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        RETURN
      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.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @email, 'OverwriteExisting', 1

    --  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.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'SaveAllAttachments', @success OUT, 'myAttachments'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
        RETURN
      END

    --  List the attachment filenames:
    DECLARE @i int

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'NumAttachments', @iTmp0 OUT
    SELECT @i = 0
    WHILE @i <= @iTmp0 - 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @email, 'GetAttachmentFilename', @sTmp0 OUT, @i
        PRINT @sTmp0
        SELECT @i = @i + 1
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email


END
GO