(C#) Download IMAP Message Set using FetchBundle

Demonstrates how to read IMAP emails using the FetchBundle method.

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

Chilkat.Imap imap = new Chilkat.Imap();

// Connect using TLS.
imap.Ssl = true;
imap.Port = 993;
bool success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Authenticate
success = imap.Login("email_account_login","email_account_password");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Search for messages with the word "test" in the subject.
bool fetchUids = true;
Chilkat.MessageSet messageSet = imap.Search("Subject test",fetchUids);
if (imap.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Download the messages in a single call to FetchBundle.
// 
// This only makes sense if the number of emails to be downloaded is not too large.  
// For example, you wouldn't want to download 10000 emails in a single call to FetchBundle.
// Why? For two reasons:  (1) It could potentially cause an out-of-memory condition, and 
// (2) it would take an extremely large amount of time.  The longer the amount of time,
// the greater the likelihood of some kind of external networking or server problem occuring,
// and if it happens, then you would need to re-download everything from the beginning again.
// For large numbers of emails, it's better to loop over the emails in the message set
// and download/process one at a time as shown here: Download IMAP Messages One at a Time
// Downloading one message at a time makes it possible to resume the downloads rather than restart the entire operation all over again.

// If the message set is reasonable in size, you can download all at once using FetchBundle:

Debug.WriteLine("Number of messages = " + Convert.ToString(messageSet.Count));

Chilkat.EmailBundle bundle = imap.FetchBundle(messageSet);
if (imap.LastMethodSuccess == false) {

    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Display the Subject and From of each email.
int i = 0;
int numEmails = bundle.MessageCount;
while (i < numEmails) {
    Chilkat.Email email = bundle.GetEmail(i);

    Debug.WriteLine(email.GetHeaderField("Date"));
    Debug.WriteLine(email.Subject);
    Debug.WriteLine(email.From);
    Debug.WriteLine("--");

    i = i + 1;
}