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Upload (Append) Email to an IMAP Mailbox and get the UID of the Appended Email

Upload / append an email to an IMAP mailbox and get the UID of the appended email. Go

    success := false

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

    imap := chilkat.NewImap()

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    // Use TLS
    imap.SetSsl(true)
    imap.SetPort(993)
    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

    // Login
    success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

    // Check the capabilities of the IMAP server.
    cap := imap.Capability()
    fmt.Println("IMAP capabilities: ", *cap)

    // If the capabilities string contains the substring "UIDPLUS", then 
    // the UID of the appended email will be available in the AppendUid property (see below).

    // For example, the GMail IMAP server has these capabilities (at this current time)
    // * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN 
    // X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT 
    // APPENDLIMIT=35882577 LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS

    email := chilkat.NewEmail()

    // Load the email from a .eml file.
    success = email.LoadEml("myEmail.eml")
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(email.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        email.DisposeEmail()
        return
    }

    success = imap.AppendMail("Inbox",email)
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        email.DisposeEmail()
        return
    }

    // If the IMAP server supports the UIDPLUS extension, then the 
    // imap.AppendUid will contain the UID of the appended email.
    // Otherwise AppendUid will be 0.
    fmt.Println("UID of appended email: ", imap.AppendUid())

    // If the IMAP server does NOT have UIDPLUS, then a program can 
    // first select the mailbox, get the value of the UidNext property,
    // and then append.  The appended email SHOULD have a UID equal to 
    // the UidNext that was obtained just prior to appending (assuming no other
    // program is simultaneously appending an email to the same mailbox).

    // Note: It is not required to select a mailbox to append.  The select is only
    // done for the purpose of obtaining the UIDNEXT value.
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        email.DisposeEmail()
        return
    }

    uidNext := imap.UidNext()

    success = imap.AppendMail("Inbox",email)
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        email.DisposeEmail()
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("The UID of the appended email SHOULD be ", uidNext)

    fmt.Println("Email uploaded to Inbox!")

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

    imap.DisposeImap()
    email.DisposeEmail()