(C) IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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#include <C_CkImap.h>
#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkImap imap;
    BOOL bUid;
    const char *mimeStr;
    int i;
    int n;
    HCkEmail email;

    success = FALSE;

    imap = CkImap_Create();

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

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    // Use TLS
    CkImap_putSsl(imap,TRUE);
    CkImap_putPort(imap,993);
    success = CkImap_Connect(imap,"imap.example.com");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkImap_lastErrorText(imap));
        CkImap_Dispose(imap);
        return;
    }

    // Login
    success = CkImap_Login(imap,"myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkImap_lastErrorText(imap));
        CkImap_Dispose(imap);
        return;
    }

    // Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = CkImap_SelectMailbox(imap,"Inbox");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkImap_lastErrorText(imap));
        CkImap_Dispose(imap);
        return;
    }

    // Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
    // will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
    // You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
    // fetch each message by sequence number.

    bUid = FALSE;

    n = CkImap_getNumMessages(imap);
    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

        // Download the email by sequence number.
        mimeStr = CkImap_fetchSingleAsMime(imap,i,bUid);

        // ... your application may process each MIME string...
    }

    // An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
    // email object, like this:
    email = CkEmail_Create();
    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

        // Download the email by sequence number.
        success = CkImap_FetchEmail(imap,FALSE,i,bUid,email);

        // ... your application may process the email object...

    }

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


    CkImap_Dispose(imap);
    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }