(Visual FoxPro) Sorting Email

Demonstrates how to sort an email bundle.

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LOCAL loImap
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnFetchUids
LOCAL loMessageSet
LOCAL loBundle
LOCAL lnAscending
LOCAL i
LOCAL loEmail

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

loImap = CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Imap')

* Connect to the IMAP server.
* Use TLS
loImap.Ssl = 1
loImap.Port = 993
lnSuccess = loImap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.com")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Login
lnSuccess = loImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Select an IMAP mailbox
lnSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
lnFetchUids = 1

* Pass any of the above strings here to test a search:
loMessageSet = loImap.Search("ALL",lnFetchUids)
IF (loImap.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:
loBundle = loImap.FetchHeaders(loMessageSet)
IF (loImap.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    RELEASE loMessageSet
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loImap
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Sort the email bundle by date, recipient, sender, or subject:
lnAscending = 1
loBundle.SortByDate(lnAscending)

* To sort by recipient, sender, or subject, call 
* SortBySender, SortByRecipient, or SortBySubject.

* Display the Subject and From of each email.
i = 0
DO WHILE i < loBundle.MessageCount

    loEmail = loBundle.GetEmail(i)

    ? loEmail.GetHeaderField("Date")
    ? loEmail.Subject
    ? loEmail.From
    ? "--"

    RELEASE loEmail

    i = i + 1
ENDDO

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

RELEASE loMessageSet
RELEASE loBundle

RELEASE loImap