Attachments property is used to enumerate and access all
the attachments contained in the message.
Actually, this is just a wrapper - no real objects are
made for Attachments collection. It is here only to
simplify your work with attachments, because attached files
are actually stored in subparts of the message. So, when
you access Attachments collection, and try to get, for
example, it's Count value,
wodMailbox will loop through all subparts and will try to
find if in any of them is attached file. If such file is
found, information about it will be updates in Attachments
collection so you can easily save it, get it's filename
or type, etc..
One thing pretty important here is to cache all the
information gathered by looping through subparts - at all
times. This means, for instance, when Count is read,
wodMailbox will find total count of attachments and cache
it. This also applies to all other information, such as
filename. If you are not interested in some of attachments,
wodMailbox will not even access it, thus no memory will be
used to storing information about it.
There's one nice thing in this approach. When
there's attachment in your message, you will be able to
access it using two approaches: as a message part, or as
attachment object.
If you access it as a message part, you will see that
message part contains readable data that represents encoded
file. You can also access headers and locate ones
you're interested in, such as encoding type, size, or
any additional information.
If you access it as an attachment, wodMailbox will
collect all needed information for you, and will allow you
to automatically save it.
It's up to you to decide which approach you will
use. Why not both, if needed?
Attachments
Property
