(Visual Basic 6.0) Unpack HTML Email to Files

Unpacks an HTML email into an HTML file and related files (images and style sheets). The links within the HTML are updated to point to the files unpacked and saved to disk.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail

Dim success As Long
success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/happyHour.eml")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Is this an HTML email?
If (email.HasHtmlBody() = 1) Then

    ' Unpack the HTML to files.  The image and css URLs
    ' in the HTML are modified to point to the files extracted to disk.
    Dim unpackDir As String
    unpackDir = "qa_output/emails"
    Dim partsSubdir As String
    partsSubdir = "images"
    Dim htmlFilename As String
    htmlFilename = "happyHour.html"
    success = email.UnpackHtml(unpackDir,htmlFilename,partsSubdir)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "Success."
End If