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How to Download Messages in MessageSet One at a Time

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If a message set contains a huge number of emails, it's NOT a good idea to try to download all at once into an email bundle using a method such as FetchBundle. It's better to iterate over the messages in the set to download one by one. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

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

$oImap = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Imap")

; Connect using TLS.
$oImap.Ssl = True
$oImap.Port = 993
$bSuccess = $oImap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Authenticate
$bSuccess = $oImap.Login("email_account_login","email_account_password")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Select an IMAP mailbox
$bSuccess = $oImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Search for messages and return a set of matching messages.
; (This example will simply search for ALL messages.)
Local $bFetchUids = True

$oMessageSet = ObjCreate("Chilkat.MessageSet")
$bSuccess = $oImap.QueryMbx("ALL",$bFetchUids,$oMessageSet)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Number of messages = " & $oMessageSet.Count & @CRLF)

$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
Local $i = 0
While $i < $oMessageSet.Count
    $bSuccess = $oImap.FetchEmail(False,$oMessageSet.GetId($i),$bFetchUids,$oEmail)
    If ($bSuccess = False) Then
        ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
        Exit
    EndIf

    ConsoleWrite($oEmail.From & "; " & $oEmail.Subject & @CRLF)

    $i = $i + 1
Wend

ConsoleWrite("OK" & @CRLF)