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IMAP Delete Old Email (before a specified date)

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Demonstrates how to delete email older than a particular date. Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

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

loImap = createobject("CkImap")

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
loImap.Ssl = .T.
loImap.Port = 993
// Use your IMAP server domain.  This example 
llSuccess = loImap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Login
llSuccess = loImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Select an IMAP mailbox
llSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Get message ID's for emails older than 1/1/2025
llFetchUids = .T.
loMessageSet = createobject("CkMessageSet")
llSuccess = loImap.QueryMbx("SENTBEFORE 01-Jan-2025",llFetchUids,loMessageSet)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    release loMessageSet
    return
endif

// If desired, we can examine the Subject of each email to be deleted..
loEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
i = 0
lnCount = loMessageSet.Count
llHeaderOnly = .T.

do while i < lnCount
    llSuccess = loImap.FetchEmail(llHeaderOnly,loMessageSet.GetId(i),.T.,loEmail)
    if (llSuccess = .F.) then
        ? loImap.LastErrorText
        release loImap
        release loMessageSet
        release loEmail
        return
    endif

    ? loEmail.LocalDateStr
    ? loEmail.Subject

    i = i + 1
enddo

// Set the Deleted flag for each message:
llSuccess = loImap.SetFlags(loMessageSet,"Deleted",1)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    release loMessageSet
    release loEmail
    return
endif

// Expunge and close the mailbox.
llSuccess = loImap.ExpungeAndClose()
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    release loMessageSet
    release loEmail
    return
endif

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
llSuccess = loImap.Disconnect()


release loImap
release loMessageSet
release loEmail