(Go) Move Selected Emails to another Mailbox Folder

Downloads emails one by one in a selected mailbox, decides which emails are to be moved, and then moves the set of messages to another mailbox folder.

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    // This example requires 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.someMailServer.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
    }

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

    // Normally, when an email is downloaded, its "Seen" flag is automatically set.
    // We don't want our program to be interfering with the "Seen" flags.
    // To do this, set the PeekMode to true.
    imap.SetPeekMode(true)

    // After selecting the mailbox, the NumMessages property
    // will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
    // When sequence numbers (not UIDs) are used to reference emails,
    // they range from 1 to N, where N is the number of messages in the mailbox.
    // This example will download the headers by sequence numbers.
    numEmails := imap.NumMessages()

    mset := chilkat.NewMessageSet()

    // Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
    mset.SetHasUids(false)

    // Fetch each email and decide for each if it is to be moved
    // to a particular other mailbox.  If so, we'll add the sequence number to
    // the mset, and then move all emails in the mset to the other mailbox.
    i := 0
    for i < numEmails {
        // Fetch the email by sequence number.
        email := imap.FetchSingle(i + 1,false)
        if imap.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
            fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
            imap.DisposeImap()
            mset.DisposeMessageSet()
            return
        }

        // If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
        mset.InsertId(i + 1)

        email.DisposeEmail()
    }

    // If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
    if mset.Count() > 0 {
        destFolder := "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
        // Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
        success = imap.MoveMessages(mset,destFolder)
        if success != true {
            fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
            imap.DisposeImap()
            mset.DisposeMessageSet()
            return
        }

    }

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

    imap.DisposeImap()
    mset.DisposeMessageSet()