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IMAP Delete Old Email (before a specified date)

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Demonstrates how to delete email older than a particular date. 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)
    // Use your IMAP server domain.  This example 
    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

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

    // Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

    // Get message ID's for emails older than 1/1/2025
    fetchUids := true
    messageSet := chilkat.NewMessageSet()
    success = imap.QueryMbx("SENTBEFORE 01-Jan-2025",fetchUids,messageSet)
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        messageSet.DisposeMessageSet()
        return
    }

    // If desired, we can examine the Subject of each email to be deleted..
    email := chilkat.NewEmail()
    i := 0
    count := messageSet.Count()
    headerOnly := true

    for i < count {
        success = imap.FetchEmail(headerOnly,*messageSet.GetId(i),true,email)
        if success == false {
            fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
            imap.DisposeImap()
            messageSet.DisposeMessageSet()
            email.DisposeEmail()
            return
        }

        fmt.Println(email.LocalDateStr())
        fmt.Println(email.Subject())

        i = i + 1
    }

    // Set the Deleted flag for each message:
    success = imap.SetFlags(messageSet,"Deleted",1)
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        messageSet.DisposeMessageSet()
        email.DisposeEmail()
        return
    }

    // Expunge and close the mailbox.
    success = imap.ExpungeAndClose()
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        messageSet.DisposeMessageSet()
        email.DisposeEmail()
        return
    }

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

    imap.DisposeImap()
    messageSet.DisposeMessageSet()
    email.DisposeEmail()