JavaScript

Subscribe to Mailboxes and List Subscribed Mailboxes

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Demonstrates how to list subscribed mailboxes, and unsubscribe/subscribe to a mailbox. JavaScript

var success = false;

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

var imap = new CkImap();

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
imap.Ssl = true;
imap.Port = 993;
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// First examine the already subscribed mailboxes.
var refName = "";
var wildcardedMailbox = "*";
var subscribed = true;

var mboxes = new CkMailboxes();
success = imap.MbxList(subscribed,refName,wildcardedMailbox,mboxes);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

var i = 0;
while (i < mboxes.Count) {
    console.log(mboxes.GetName(i));
    i = i+1;
}

console.log("----");

// Sample output.

// INBOX
// INBOX/recent
// INBOX/misc
// INBOX/misc/solutions
// ...
// Outbox
// Deleted Items
// Sent Items
// Drafts
// Junk E-mail
// Trash
// Sent
// Templates

// Let's unsubscribe to "INBOX/misc/solutions".
success = imap.Unsubscribe("INBOX/misc/solutions");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Get the list of subscribed mailboxes again to verify that "INBOX/misc/solutions" is missing.
success = imap.MbxList(subscribed,"","INBOX/misc*",mboxes);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

i = 0;
while (i < mboxes.Count) {
    console.log(mboxes.GetName(i));
    i = i+1;
}

console.log("----");

// Re-subscribe to "INBOX/misc/solutions".
success = imap.Subscribe("INBOX/misc/solutions");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Get the list of subscribed mailboxes again to verify that "INBOX/misc/solutions" is back in the list.
success = imap.MbxList(subscribed,"","INBOX/misc*",mboxes);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

i = 0;
while (i < mboxes.Count) {
    console.log(mboxes.GetName(i));
    i = i+1;
}

console.log("----");

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