Android™

Read iCloud Email Account using IMAP

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Demonstrates how to set the IMAP settings for an iCloud email account and downloads the email from Inbox. 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 requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkImap imap = new CkImap();

    // Connect to the iCloud IMAP Mail Server
    imap.put_Ssl(true);
    imap.put_Port(993);
    success = imap.Connect("imap.mail.me.com");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // The username is usually the name part of your iCloud email address 
    // (for example, emilyparker, not emilyparker@icloud.com).
    success = imap.Login("ICLOUD_USERNAME","ICLOUD_PASSWORD");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

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

    // Once the folder/mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
    // will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
    // Loop from 1 to NumMessages to fetch each email by sequence number.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    int i;
    int n = imap.get_NumMessages();
    boolean bUid = false;
    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

        // Download the email by sequence number.
        success = imap.FetchEmail(false,i,bUid,email);
        if (success == false) {
            Log.i(TAG, imap.lastErrorText());
            return;
            }

        Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(i) + ": " + email.ck_from());
        Log.i(TAG, "    " + email.subject());
        Log.i(TAG, "-");
        }

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

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

    // Sample output:

    // 	1: iCloud <noreply@email.apple.com>
    // 	    Welcome to iCloud Mail.
    // 	-
    // 	2: "Chilkat Software" <support@chilkatsoft.com>
    // 	    This is a test
    // 	-
    // 	Success.

  }

  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."
  }
}