(Classic ASP) Fetch Single Email by UID or Sequence Number

Assuming the UID is known, download a single email by UID from an IMAP mail server.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
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<%
success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set imap = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

' Connect to an IMAP server.
' Use TLS
imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("***","***")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

uid = 2014
isUid = 1

success = imap.FetchEmail(0,uid,isUid,email)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Display the From and Subject
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.FromAddress) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Subject) & "</pre>"

' Display the Body property, which is the default body.
' If an email has an HTML body, the Body property contains
' the HTML source.  Otherwise it contains the plain-text
' body.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "---- EMAIL BODY ----") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Body) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "--------------------") & "</pre>"

' Display the recipients:

For j = 0 To email.NumTo - 1
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.GetToName(j) & ", " & email.GetToAddr(j)) & "</pre>"
Next
For j = 0 To email.NumCC - 1
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.GetCcName(j) & ", " & email.GetCcAddr(j)) & "</pre>"
Next

' Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Size) & "</pre>"

' When a full email is downloaded, we would use the
' email.NumAttachments property in conjunction with the
' email.GetMailAttach* methods.
' However, when an email object contains only the header,
' we need to access the attachment info differently:
numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( numAttach) & "</pre>"

For j = 0 To numAttach - 1
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j)) & "</pre>"
    attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j)
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "    size = " & attachSize & " bytes") & "</pre>"
Next

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "--") & "</pre>"

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
success = imap.Disconnect()

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