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Delphi DLL

Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

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Delphi DLL
uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, EmailBundle, Imap, Email, MessageSet;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
imap: HCkImap;
fetchUids: Boolean;
messageSet: HCkMessageSet;
bundle: HCkEmailBundle;
headersOnly: Boolean;
fullEmail: HCkEmail;
emailHeader: HCkEmail;
i: Integer;
numAttach: Integer;
uidStr: PWideChar;
uid: Integer;
j: Integer;
filename: PWideChar;

begin
success := False;

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

imap := CkImap_Create();

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
CkImap_putSsl(imap,True);
CkImap_putPort(imap,993);
success := CkImap_Connect(imap,'imap.example.com');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkImap__lastErrorText(imap));
    Exit;
  end;

// Login
success := CkImap_Login(imap,'myLogin','myPassword');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkImap__lastErrorText(imap));
    Exit;
  end;

// Select an IMAP mailbox
success := CkImap_SelectMailbox(imap,'Inbox');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkImap__lastErrorText(imap));
    Exit;
  end;

// We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
fetchUids := True;

// Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
messageSet := CkMessageSet_Create();
success := CkImap_QueryMbx(imap,'ALL',fetchUids,messageSet);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkImap__lastErrorText(imap));
    Exit;
  end;

// Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:
bundle := CkEmailBundle_Create();
headersOnly := True;
success := CkImap_FetchMsgSet(imap,headersOnly,messageSet,bundle);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkImap__lastErrorText(imap));
    Exit;
  end;

// Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
// to a sub-directory.
fullEmail := CkEmail_Create();
emailHeader := CkEmail_Create();
i := 0;
while i < CkEmailBundle_getMessageCount(bundle) do
  begin
    // The bundle contains email headers..
    CkEmailBundle_EmailAt(bundle,i,emailHeader);

    // Does this email have attachments?
    // Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    // are not actually in the email object because
    // we only downloaded headers.
    numAttach := CkImap_GetMailNumAttach(imap,emailHeader);

    if (numAttach > 0) then
      begin
        // Download the entire email and save the
        // attachments. (Remember, we 
        // need to download the entire email because
        // only the headers were previously downloaded.

        // The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        // headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        // to get the UID from the email object.
        uidStr := CkEmail__getHeaderField(emailHeader,'ckx-imap-uid');
        uid := StrToInt(uidStr);

        success := CkImap_FetchEmail(imap,False,uid,True,fullEmail);
        if (success = False) then
          begin
            Memo1.Lines.Add(CkImap__lastErrorText(imap));
            Exit;
          end;

        success := CkEmail_SaveAllAttachments(fullEmail,'attachmentsDir');

        for j := 0 to numAttach - 1 do
          begin
            filename := CkImap__getMailAttachFilename(imap,emailHeader,j);
            Memo1.Lines.Add(filename);
          end;

      end;

    i := i + 1;
  end;

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
success := CkImap_Disconnect(imap);

CkImap_Dispose(imap);
CkMessageSet_Dispose(messageSet);
CkEmailBundle_Dispose(bundle);
CkEmail_Dispose(fullEmail);
CkEmail_Dispose(emailHeader);

end;