(Visual FoxPro) Download and Save Email Attachments (POP3)

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Downloads emails from a POP3 mailbox and saves all attachments.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

LOCAL loMailman
LOCAL loBundle
LOCAL lcDirPath
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnBundleIndex
LOCAL lnNumMessages
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL lnNumAttachments
LOCAL lnAttachIndex

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

* The mailman object is used for receiving (POP3) 
* and sending (SMTP) email.
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.MailMan')
loMailman = CreateObject('Chilkat.MailMan')

* Set the POP3 server's hostname
loMailman.MailHost = "pop.yourserver.com"

* Set the POP3 login/password.
loMailman.PopUsername = "***"
loMailman.PopPassword = "***"

* Copy the all email from the user's POP3 mailbox 
* into a bundle object.  The email remains on the server.
* CopyMail is a reasonable choice for POP3 maildrops that don't have too many
* emails. For larger mail drops, one might download emails one at a time..
loBundle = loMailman.CopyMail()
IF (loMailman.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* The directory path can be relative or absolute.
* This shows a Windows style directory path.  On other operating systems, the path
* would be different..
lcDirPath = "c:/myAttachments"

lnBundleIndex = 0
lnNumMessages = loBundle.MessageCount

DO WHILE (lnBundleIndex < lnNumMessages)
    loEmail = loBundle.GetEmail(lnBundleIndex)

    * Save all attachments to the specified directory.
    * The directory is automatically created if it does not yet exist.
    lnSuccess = loEmail.SaveAllAttachments(lcDirPath)
    IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
        ? loEmail.LastErrorText
        RELEASE loMailman
        CANCEL
    ENDIF

    * The OverwriteExisting property controls whether already-existing files
    * are automatically overwritten.  By default, it is set to 1 so that existing
    * files will be overwritten.

    * Setting OverwriteExisting = 0 will cause the attachment-saving methods to generate
    * unique filenames if a file with the same name already exists.  The actual filename(s)
    * saved will be present by calling GetAttachmentFilename for each attachment *after*
    * saving.
    * For example...
    loEmail.OverwriteExisting = 0
    lnSuccess = loEmail.SaveAllAttachments(lcDirPath)
    IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
        ? loEmail.LastErrorText
        RELEASE loMailman
        CANCEL
    ENDIF

    lnNumAttachments = loEmail.NumAttachments
    lnAttachIndex = 0
    DO WHILE (lnAttachIndex < lnNumAttachments)
        * If the attachment filename was changed to prevent overwriting,
        * GetAttachmentFilename will return the new filename.
        ? loEmail.GetAttachmentFilename(lnAttachIndex)
        lnAttachIndex = lnAttachIndex + 1
    ENDDO

    * Attachments can also be saved individually.
    lnAttachIndex = 0
    DO WHILE (lnAttachIndex < lnNumAttachments)

        ? "Original Filename: " + loEmail.GetAttachmentFilename(lnAttachIndex)
        lnSuccess = loEmail.SaveAttachedFile(lnAttachIndex,lcDirPath)
        IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
            ? loEmail.LastErrorText
            RELEASE loMailman
            CANCEL
        ENDIF

        * If OverwriteExisting = 1, the saved filename will always equal the original filename,
        * unless there are characters present in the filename that are not allowed by Windows,
        * such as * ? < > | etc.  In those cases the illegal characters are either removed or replaced
        * with underscore characters to allow the file to be saved.
        ? "Saved Filename: " + loEmail.GetAttachmentFilename(lnAttachIndex)
        lnAttachIndex = lnAttachIndex + 1
    ENDDO
    RELEASE loEmail

    lnBundleIndex = lnBundleIndex + 1
ENDDO

RELEASE loBundle

RELEASE loMailman