SQL Server

Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory. SQL Server

-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    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