Attachment Class

Provides properties and methods for presenting an e-mail attachment.

System.Object
EAGetMail.Attachment

[Visual Basic]
Public Class Attachment

[C#]
public class Attachment

[C++/CLI]
public ref class Attachment

[JScript]
public class Attachment

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Public Constructors

Attachment Constructor

Initializes a new instance of the Attachment class.

Public Properties

Content	Gets the Content (binary data) of the embedded attachment.
ContentID	Gets the Content-ID of the embedded attachment.
ContentType	Gets the Content-Type of the attachment.
EncodedContent	Gets the enconded content (raw data) of the attachment.
Headers	Gets the HeaderCollection for headers of the e-mail message.
Name	Gets the name of the attachment.

Public Methods

SaveAs

Saves the attachment to a local file.

Remarks

It is not recommended to construct Attachment class instance directly. To get attachments of email, please use Mail.Attachments property, this property returns an array for Attachment class instances.

Example

[Visual Basic, C#, C++, JScript.NET] To get the full samples of EAGetMail, please refer to Samples section.

[Visual Basic - Parse Attachment]
Imports EAGetMail

Public Sub ParseAttachment()
    Dim oMail As New Mail("TryIt")
    oMail.Load("c:\test.eml", False)

    ' Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail.DecodeTNEF()

    Dim atts() As Attachment = oMail.Attachments
    
    Dim tempFolder As String = "c:\temp"
    Dim count As Integer = atts.Length
    If (Not System.IO.Directory.Exists(tempFolder)) Then
        System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(tempFolder)
    End If

    For i As Integer = 0 To count - 1
        Dim att As Attachment = atts(i)
        Dim attname As String = String.Format("{0}\{1}", tempFolder, att.Name)
        att.SaveAs(attname, True)
    Next
End Sub


[C# - Parse Attachment]
using System;
using System.Collections;
using EAGetMail;

public void ParseAttachment()
{
    Mail oMail = new Mail("TryIt");
    oMail.Load("c:\\test.eml", false);

    // Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail.DecodeTNEF();

    Attachment [] atts = oMail.Attachments;
    int count = atts.Length;
    string  tempFolder = "c:\\temp";
    if(!System.IO.Directory.Exists(tempFolder))
        System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(tempFolder);

    for(int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        Attachment att = atts[i];
        string attname = String.Format("{0}\\{1}", tempFolder, att.Name);
        att.SaveAs(attname , true);
    }
}


[C++ - Parse Attachment]
using namespace System;
using namespace EAGetMail;

Void ParseAttachment()
{
    Mail ^oMail = gcnew Mail("TryIt");
    oMail->Load("c:\\test.eml", false);

    // Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail->DecodeTNEF();

    array<Attachment^> ^atts= oMail->Attachments;
    int count = atts->Length;
    String^ tempFolder = "c:\\temp";
    if(!System::IO::Directory::Exists(tempFolder))
        System::IO::Directory::CreateDirectory(tempFolder);

    for(int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        Attachment ^att = atts[i];
       
        String ^attname = String::Format("{0}\\{1}", tempFolder, att->Name);
        att->SaveAs(attname, true);
    }
}


[JScript - Parse Attachment]
function ParseAttachment()
{
    var oMail:Mail = new Mail("TryIt");
    oMail.Load("c:\\test.eml", false);

    // Decode winmail.dat (TNEF) automatically
    oMail.DecodeTNEF();

    var atts:Attachment[] = oMail.Attachments;
    var count:int = atts.Length;
    var tempFolder:String = "c:\\temp";
    if(!System.IO.Directory.Exists(tempFolder))
        System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(tempFolder);

    for(var i:int = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        var att:Attachment = atts[i];
        var attname:String = String.Format("{0}\\{1}", tempFolder, att.Name);
        att.SaveAs(attname , true);
    }
}

See Also

Mail.Attachments Property

Online Tutorials

Parse Email in C# - Tutorial
Parse winmail.dat(TNEF) in C# - Tutorial
Parse Email in VB.NET - Tutorial
Parse winmail.dat(TNEF) in VB.NET - Tutorial
Parse Email in C++/CLI - Tutorial
Parse winmail.dat(TNEF) in C++/CLI - Tutorial