(Go) IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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    success := false

    imap := Imap_Ref.html">chilkat.NewImap()

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

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    // Use TLS
    imap.SetSsl(true)
    imap.SetPort(993)
    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
    }

    // Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
    // will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
    // You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
    // fetch each message by sequence number.

    bUid := false
    var mimeStr *string = new(string)
    var i int
    n := imap.NumMessages()
    for i = 1; i <= n; i++ {

        // Download the email by sequence number.
        mimeStr = imap.FetchSingleAsMime(i,bUid)

        // ... your application may process each MIME string...
    }

    // An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
    // email object, like this:
    email := Email_Ref.html">chilkat.NewEmail()
    for i = 1; i <= n; i++ {

        // Download the email by sequence number.
        success = imap.FetchEmail(false,i,bUid,email)

        // ... your application may process the email object...

    }

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

    imap.DisposeImap()
    email.DisposeEmail()