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Android™

Fetch Single Email by UID or Sequence Number

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

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Android™
// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

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

    CkImap imap = new CkImap();

    //  Connect to an IMAP server.
    //  Use TLS
    imap.put_Ssl(true);
    imap.put_Port(993);
    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Login
    success = imap.Login("***","***");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    int uid = 2014;
    boolean isUid = true;

    success = imap.FetchEmail(false,uid,isUid,email);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Display the From and Subject
    Log.i(TAG, email.fromAddress());
    Log.i(TAG, email.subject());

    //  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.
    Log.i(TAG, "---- EMAIL BODY ----");
    Log.i(TAG, email.body());
    Log.i(TAG, "--------------------");

    //  Display the recipients:
    int j;
    for (j = 0; j <= email.get_NumTo() - 1; j++) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.getToName(j) + ", " + email.getToAddr(j));
        }

    for (j = 0; j <= email.get_NumCC() - 1; j++) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.getCcName(j) + ", " + email.getCcAddr(j));
        }

    //  Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
    Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(email.get_Size()));

    //  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:
    int numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email);
    Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(numAttach));

    for (j = 0; j <= numAttach - 1; j++) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.getMailAttachFilename(email,j));
        int attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j);
        Log.i(TAG, "    size = " + String.valueOf(attachSize) + " bytes");
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "--");

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

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}