Visual Basic 6.0

Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail

'  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 <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  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 = 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.
success = email.SaveAllAttachments("myAttachments")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  List the attachment filenames:
Dim i As Long
For i = 0 To email.NumAttachments - 1
    Debug.Print email.GetAttachmentFilename(i)
Next