(Classic ASP) Fetch Single Email by UID or Sequence Number

Assuming the UID is known, download a single email by UID from an IMAP mail server.

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ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Imap")
set imap = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

' Connect to an IMAP server.
' Use TLS
imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.com")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("***","***")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

uid = 2014
isUid = 1

' email is a Chilkat.Email
Set email = imap.FetchSingle(uid,isUid)
If (imap.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then

    ' Display the From and Subject
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.FromAddress) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Subject) & "</pre>"

    ' Display the Body property, which is the default body.
    ' If an email has an HTML body, the Body property contains
    ' the HTML source.  Otherwise it contains the plain-text
    ' body.
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "---- EMAIL BODY ----") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Body) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "--------------------") & "</pre>"

    ' Display the recipients:

    For j = 0 To email.NumTo - 1
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.GetToName(j) & ", " & email.GetToAddr(j)) & "</pre>"
    Next
    For j = 0 To email.NumCC - 1
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.GetCcName(j) & ", " & email.GetCcAddr(j)) & "</pre>"
    Next

    ' Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.Size) & "</pre>"

    ' When a full email is downloaded, we would use the
    ' email.NumAttachments property in conjunction with the
    ' email.GetMailAttach* methods.
    ' However, when an email object contains only the header,
    ' we need to access the attachment info differently:
    numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( numAttach) & "</pre>"

    For j = 0 To numAttach - 1
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j)) & "</pre>"
        attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j)
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "    size = " & attachSize & " bytes") & "</pre>"
    Next

    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "--") & "</pre>"

End If

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
success = imap.Disconnect()

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