Visual FoxPro

Move Selected Emails to another Mailbox Folder

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Downloads emails one by one in a selected mailbox, decides which emails are to be moved, and then moves the set of messages to another mailbox folder. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loImap
LOCAL lnNumEmails
LOCAL loMset
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL i
LOCAL lcDestFolder

lnSuccess = 0

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

loImap = CreateObject('Chilkat.Imap')

* 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

* Normally, when an email is downloaded, its "Seen" flag is automatically set.
* We don't want our program to be interfering with the "Seen" flags.
* To do this, set the PeekMode to 1.
loImap.PeekMode = 1

* After selecting the mailbox, the NumMessages property
* will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
* When sequence numbers (not UIDs) are used to reference emails,
* they range from 1 to N, where N is the number of messages in the mailbox.
* This example will download the headers by sequence numbers.
lnNumEmails = loImap.NumMessages

loMset = CreateObject('Chilkat.MessageSet')

* Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
loMset.HasUids = 0

* Fetch each email and decide for each if it is to be moved
* to a particular other mailbox.  If so, we'll add the sequence number to
* the mset, and then move all emails in the mset to the other mailbox.
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
i = 0
DO WHILE i < lnNumEmails
    * Fetch the email by sequence number.
    lnSuccess = loImap.FetchEmail(0,i + 1,0,loEmail)
    IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
        ? loImap.LastErrorText
        RELEASE loImap
        RELEASE loMset
        RELEASE loEmail
        CANCEL
    ENDIF

    * If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
    loMset.InsertId(i + 1)

ENDDO

* If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
IF (loMset.Count > 0) THEN
    lcDestFolder = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    * Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    lnSuccess = loImap.MoveMessages(loMset,lcDestFolder)
    IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
        ? loImap.LastErrorText
        RELEASE loImap
        RELEASE loMset
        RELEASE loEmail
        CANCEL
    ENDIF

ENDIF

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

RELEASE loImap
RELEASE loMset
RELEASE loEmail