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Upload (Append) Email to an IMAP Mailbox and get the UID of the Appended Email

Upload / append an email to an IMAP mailbox and get the UID of the appended email.

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Node.js
NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

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

    var imap = new chilkat.Imap();

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    // Use TLS
    imap.Ssl = true;
    imap.Port = 993;
    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Login
    success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Check the capabilities of the IMAP server.
    var cap = imap.Capability();
    console.log("IMAP capabilities: " + cap);

    // If the capabilities string contains the substring "UIDPLUS", then 
    // the UID of the appended email will be available in the AppendUid property (see below).

    // For example, the GMail IMAP server has these capabilities (at this current time)
    // * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN 
    // X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT 
    // APPENDLIMIT=35882577 LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS

    var email = new chilkat.Email();

    // Load the email from a .eml file.
    success = email.LoadEml("myEmail.eml");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(email.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    success = imap.AppendMail("Inbox",email);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // If the IMAP server supports the UIDPLUS extension, then the 
    // imap.AppendUid will contain the UID of the appended email.
    // Otherwise AppendUid will be 0.
    console.log("UID of appended email: " + imap.AppendUid);

    // If the IMAP server does NOT have UIDPLUS, then a program can 
    // first select the mailbox, get the value of the UidNext property,
    // and then append.  The appended email SHOULD have a UID equal to 
    // the UidNext that was obtained just prior to appending (assuming no other
    // program is simultaneously appending an email to the same mailbox).

    // Note: It is not required to select a mailbox to append.  The select is only
    // done for the purpose of obtaining the UIDNEXT value.
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    var uidNext = imap.UidNext;

    success = imap.AppendMail("Inbox",email);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log("The UID of the appended email SHOULD be " + uidNext);

    console.log("Email uploaded to Inbox!");

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

}

chilkatExample();