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Android™

IMAP Capability

Demonstrates how to send the CAPABILITY command to request a listing of capabilities that the IMAP server supports. A capability name which begins with "AUTH=" indicates that the server supports that particular authentication mechanism.

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

    CkImap imap = new CkImap();

    // Use TLS
    imap.put_Ssl(true);
    imap.put_Port(993);
    success = imap.Connect("MY-IMAP-DOMAIN");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Authenticate
    success = imap.Login("MY-IMAP-LOGIN","MY-IMAP-PASSWORD");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Get the list of capabilities:
    String caps = imap.capability();
    Log.i(TAG, "Capabilities: " + caps);

    // Here is an example of the string returned:
    // * 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

    // Chilkat v9.5.0.58 introduces the HasCapability method to
    // check to see if a particular capability exists:
    if (imap.HasCapability("QUOTA",caps) == true) {
        Log.i(TAG, "IMAP server supports the QUOTA extension.");
        }

    if (imap.HasCapability("IDLE",caps) == true) {
        Log.i(TAG, "IMAP server supports IDLE.");
        }

    // 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."
  }
}