JavaScript

Read iCloud Email Account using IMAP

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Demonstrates how to set the IMAP settings for an iCloud email account and downloads the email from Inbox. JavaScript

var success = false;

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

var imap = new CkImap();

// Connect to the iCloud IMAP Mail Server
imap.Ssl = true;
imap.Port = 993;
success = imap.Connect("imap.mail.me.com");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// The username is usually the name part of your iCloud email address 
// (for example, emilyparker, not emilyparker@icloud.com).
success = imap.Login("ICLOUD_USERNAME","ICLOUD_PASSWORD");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Select an IMAP folder/mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Once the folder/mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
// will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
// Loop from 1 to NumMessages to fetch each email by sequence number.

var email = new CkEmail();
var i;
var n = imap.NumMessages;
var bUid = false;
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    success = imap.FetchEmail(false,i,bUid,email);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log(i + ": " + email.From);
    console.log("    " + email.Subject);
    console.log("-");
}

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

console.log("Success.");

// Sample output:

// 	1: iCloud <noreply@email.apple.com>
// 	    Welcome to iCloud Mail.
// 	-
// 	2: "Chilkat Software" <support@chilkatsoft.com>
// 	    This is a test
// 	-
// 	Success.