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Classic ASP

Copy Email from one IMAP Account to Another

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Demonstrates how to copy the email in a mailbox from one account to another.

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success = 0

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

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

' Connect to our source IMAP server.
imapSrc.Ssl = 1
imapSrc.Port = 993
success = imapSrc.Connect("MY-IMAP-DOMAIN")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapSrc.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Login to the source IMAP server
success = imapSrc.Login("MY-IMAP-LOGIN","MY-IMAP-PASSWORD")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapSrc.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

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

' Connect to our destination IMAP server.
imapDest.Ssl = 1
imapDest.Port = 993
success = imapDest.Connect("MY-IMAP-DOMAIN2")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapDest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Login to the destination IMAP server
success = imapDest.Login("MY-IMAP-LOGIN2","MY-IMAP-PASSWORD2")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapDest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Select a source IMAP mailbox on the source IMAP server
success = imapSrc.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapSrc.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

fetchUids = 1

' Get the set of UIDs for all emails on the source server.
' mset is a Chilkat.MessageSet
Set mset = imapSrc.Search("ALL",fetchUids)
If (imapSrc.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapSrc.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Load the complete set of UIDs that were previously copied.
' We dont' want to copy any of these to the destination.
set fac = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.FileAccess")
set msetAlreadyCopied = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")
strMsgSet = fac.ReadEntireTextFile("qa_cache/saAlreadyLoaded.txt","utf-8")
If (fac.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then
    success = msetAlreadyCopied.FromCompactString(strMsgSet)
End If

numUids = mset.Count
set sbFlags = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

i = 0
Do While i < numUids

    ' If this UID was not already copied...
    uid = mset.GetId(i)
    If (Not msetAlreadyCopied.ContainsId(uid)) Then

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

        ' Get the flags.
        flags = imapSrc.FetchFlags(uid,1)
        If (imapSrc.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
            Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapSrc.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
            Response.End
        End If

        success = sbFlags.SetString(flags)

        ' Get the MIME of this email from the source.
        mimeStr = imapSrc.FetchSingleAsMime(uid,1)
        If (imapSrc.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
            Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapSrc.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
            Response.End
        End If

        seen = sbFlags.Contains("\Seen",0)
        flagged = sbFlags.Contains("\Flagged",0)
        answered = sbFlags.Contains("\Answered",0)
        draft = sbFlags.Contains("\Draft",0)

        success = imapDest.AppendMimeWithFlags("Inbox",mimeStr,seen,flagged,answered,draft)
        If (success <> 1) Then
            Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imapDest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
            Response.End
        End If

        ' Update msetAlreadyCopied with the uid just copied.
        msetAlreadyCopied.InsertId uid

        ' Save at every iteration just in case there's a failure..
        strMsgSet = msetAlreadyCopied.ToCompactString()
        success = fac.WriteEntireTextFile("qa_cache/saAlreadyLoaded.txt",strMsgSet,"utf-8",0)
    End If

    i = i + 1
Loop

' Disconnect from the IMAP servers.
success = imapSrc.Disconnect()
success = imapDest.Disconnect()

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