Visual FoxPro

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.) Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loImap
LOCAL lnBUid
LOCAL lcMimeStr
LOCAL i
LOCAL n
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

loImap = CreateObject('Chilkat.Imap')

* 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
loImap.Ssl = 1
loImap.Port = 993
lnSuccess = loImap.Connect("imap.example.com")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Login
lnSuccess = loImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Select an IMAP mailbox
lnSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* 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.

lnBUid = 0

n = loImap.NumMessages
FOR i = 1 TO n

    * Download the email by sequence number.
    lcMimeStr = loImap.FetchSingleAsMime(i,lnBUid)

    * ... your application may process each MIME string...
NEXT

* An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
* email object, like this:
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
FOR i = 1 TO n

    * Download the email by sequence number.
    lnSuccess = loImap.FetchEmail(0,i,lnBUid,loEmail)

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

NEXT

* Disconnect from the IMAP server.
lnSuccess = loImap.Disconnect()

RELEASE loImap
RELEASE loEmail