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Posted: 31 March 2020 at 8:06am | IP Logged Quote mnoreen
The SaveToFolder() method on the Attachment class doesn't seem to quite be doing what is documented.

I have a mail message that is loaded, then there's a foreach loop to go through the attachments and calling the SaveToFolder() method on each one. Pretty simple. Except, this one mail message so happens to have the same file attached 2x.

I've stepped through this code in the debugger. The .FileName property is different for both attachments. But the SaveToFolder() method isn't using the FileName property, it appears to be using the .FilenameOriginal property.

If I change the code to pass "false" in the SaveToFolder() method. It will save out the 2nd attachment now with a "[1]" postfix to the filename. But then, that doesn't match the attachment's .filename property.

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Posted: 31 March 2020 at 8:09am | IP Logged Quote mnoreen
Code:

foreach (Attachment attachment in msg.Attachments)
            {
                if (attachment.IsInline)
                    continue;

                attachment.SaveToFolder(workFolder, false);
            }


This code works in that both files are saved, but the 2nd file is saved with postfix on the filename rather than using the .FileName property from the attachment.
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Posted: 31 March 2020 at 9:36am | IP Logged Quote Alex
Neither FilenameOriginal nor FileName are assigned to the filename generated by SaveToFolder method. Suffix appended to FileName is to distinguish between attachments with the same name in .Attachments collection. SaveToFolder, on other hand, appends a completely different suffix which is to distinguish between files with the same filename in the target folder. Before SaveToFolder call, it's not known which filename will be actually assigned (we don't know if the file with the same name already exists in that folder or not).

So, SavedAs is assigned AFTER SaveToFolder and it's the only property which can be reliably used as a referenced to the saved file.

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Posted: 01 April 2020 at 9:53am | IP Logged Quote mnoreen
Thank you Alex, I worked around it. I was just going off the code definition/comments that are a part of the Mailbee object browser (for example, I put cursor over the Attachment declaration in my code, hit F12 (Go To Definition).

Code:

       // Remarks:
        //     This method saves the attachment content to the folder under the actual filename
        //     of the attachment (which is taken from MailBee.Mime.Attachment.Filename property).
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Posted: 06 April 2020 at 12:02pm | IP Logged Quote mnoreen
It's a tricky situation. We want to save then remove all non-inline attachments from an .eml file, and finally resave the .eml. So we reworked the code to call

Code:

SaveAll(string folderName, bool ignoreInlineAttachments)


Then use a reverse iteration to remove the attachments from the MailMessage object.

Code:

for (int i = msg.Attachments.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                if (msg.Attachments.IsInline)
                    continue;

                msg.Attachments.RemoveAt(i);
            }


But this seems like there's a possibility it could get out of sequence. Would it be possible to get a function equivalent to the SaveAll() method with the "ignoreInlineAttachments" parameter?

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Posted: 07 April 2020 at 1:29am | IP Logged Quote Alex
Sorry, I could not understand what you're asking for.

A function equivalent to the SaveAll() method with the "ignoreInlineAttachments" parameter? - How would it differ from SaveAll with this parameter (which is already there)?

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Posted: 10 April 2020 at 1:26pm | IP Logged Quote mnoreen
I was hoping that there could be RemoveAll(bool ignoreInlineAttachments) method that worked *like* the SaveAll() method w/ that boolean parameter.
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Posted: 11 April 2020 at 6:14am | IP Logged Quote Alex
Got it now, thanks. No, that would be a too special method for a general-purpose library.

BTW, when do you get "out of sequence" situation?

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