Delphi ActiveX Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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.) Delphi ActiveX

var
success: Integer;
imap: TChilkatImap;
bUid: Integer;
mimeStr: WideString;
i: Integer;
n: Integer;
email: TChilkatEmail;

begin
success := 0;

imap := TChilkatImap.Create(Self);

//  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
imap.Ssl := 1;
imap.Port := 993;
success := imap.Connect('imap.example.com');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Login
success := imap.Login('myLogin','myPassword');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
success := imap.SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  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 := 0;

n := imap.NumMessages;
for i := 1 to n do
  begin

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

    //  ... your application may process each MIME string...
  end;

//  An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
//  email object, like this:
email := TChilkatEmail.Create(Self);
for i := 1 to n do
  begin

    //  Download the email by sequence number.
    success := imap.FetchEmail(0,i,bUid,email.ControlInterface);

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

  end;

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