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Move Selected Emails to another Mailbox Folder

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Downloads emails one by one in a selected mailbox, decides which emails are to be moved, and then moves the set of messages to another mailbox folder.

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

;  Login
$bSuccess = $oImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If ($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

;  Normally, when an email is downloaded, its "Seen" flag is automatically set.
;  We don't want our program to be interfering with the "Seen" flags.
;  To do this, set the PeekMode to True.
$oImap.PeekMode = True

;  After selecting the mailbox, the NumMessages property
;  will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
;  When sequence numbers (not UIDs) are used to reference emails,
;  they range from 1 to N, where N is the number of messages in the mailbox.
;  This example will download the headers by sequence numbers.
Local $iNumEmails = $oImap.NumMessages

$oMset = ObjCreate("Chilkat.MessageSet")

;  Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
$oMset.HasUids = False

;  Fetch each email and decide for each if it is to be moved
;  to a particular other mailbox.  If so, we'll add the sequence number to
;  the mset, and then move all emails in the mset to the other mailbox.
$oEmail = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Email")
Local $i = 0
While $i < $iNumEmails
    ;  Fetch the email by sequence number.
    $bSuccess = $oImap.FetchEmail(False,$i + 1,False,$oEmail)
    If ($bSuccess = False) Then
        ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
        Exit
    EndIf

    ;  If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
    $oMset.InsertId $i + 1

Wend

;  If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
If ($oMset.Count > 0) Then
Local $sDestFolder = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    ;  Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    $bSuccess = $oImap.MoveMessages($oMset,$sDestFolder)
    If ($bSuccess = False) Then
        ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
        Exit
    EndIf

EndIf

;  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$bSuccess = $oImap.Disconnect()