AutoIt

Determine the Number of Unseen Email Messages

Demonstrates how to determine how many unseen messages exist in an email account on an IMAP server. 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 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 = $oImap.Login("***","***")
If ($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

; After selecting the mailbox. the total number of emails
; is immediately available:
Local $iTotalNum = $oImap.NumMessages
ConsoleWrite("Num messages = " & $iTotalNum & @CRLF)

; To determine the number of unseen messages, a call
; to Search is required, which returns the set of UIDs
; of all unseen messages.

; We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
Local $bFetchUids = True
$oMessageSet = ObjCreate("Chilkat.MessageSet")
$bSuccess = $oImap.QueryMbx("UNSEEN",$bFetchUids,$oMessageSet)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oImap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

Local $iNumUnseen = $oMessageSet.Count
ConsoleWrite($iNumUnseen & @CRLF)

ConsoleWrite("UIDs ----" & @CRLF)

; Display the UIDs
Local $i = 0
While $i < $oMessageSet.Count
    ConsoleWrite($oMessageSet.GetId($i) & @CRLF)
    $i = $i + 1
Wend

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