Android™

Delete Email Individually (One at a time) from an IMAP Mailbox

Downloads email from an IMAP mailbox and deletes emails individually (one by one). Android™

// 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();

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    // Use TLS
    imap.put_Ssl(true);
    imap.put_Port(993);
    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Login
    success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
    boolean fetchUids = true;

    // Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
    CkMessageSet messageSet = new CkMessageSet();
    success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Fetch the emails into a bundle object:
    CkEmailBundle bundle = new CkEmailBundle();
    boolean headersOnly = false;
    success = imap.FetchMsgSet(headersOnly,messageSet,bundle);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // To mark a complete set of emails for deletion, call SetFlags:
    success = imap.SetFlags(messageSet,"Deleted",1);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Messages can also be marked for deletion individually:
    // Loop over the bundle and mark each message for deletion.
    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    int i = 0;
    int numEmails = bundle.get_MessageCount();
    while (i < numEmails) {
        bundle.EmailAt(i,email);

        Log.i(TAG, email.ck_from());
        Log.i(TAG, email.subject());

        // To delete this email, set the "Deleted" flag to 1.
        // The email is not actually deleted until Expunge or
        // ExpungeAndClose is called.
        success = imap.SetMailFlag(email,"Deleted",1);
        if (success == false) {
            Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
            return;
            }

        Log.i(TAG, "--");

        i = i + 1;
        }

    success = imap.ExpungeAndClose();
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // 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."
  }
}