(MFC) Retrieve UIDL's from POP3 Server

Retrieve a list of UIDLs from a POP3 server. A UIDL is an identifier consisting of 1 to 70 characters in the range 0x21 to 0x7E, which uniquely identifies a messages within a mailbox and persists across sessions.

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See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkMailMan.h>
#include <CkStringArray.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

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

    CkMailMan mailman;

    mailman.put_MailHost("pop.example.com");

    mailman.put_PopUsername("myLogin");
    mailman.put_PopPassword("myPassword");

    mailman.put_MailPort(995);
    mailman.put_PopSsl(true);

    CkStringArray *sa = mailman.GetUidls();
    if (mailman.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        strOut.append(mailman.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    // Download each email by UIDL.
    const char *uidl = 0;
    int i = 0;
    int numUidls = sa->get_Count();
    while (i < numUidls) {
        uidl = sa->getString(i);
        strOut.append(uidl);
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        i = i + 1;
    }

    delete sa;


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }