(Lianja) Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

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

loImap = createobject("CkImap")

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
loImap.Ssl = .T.
loImap.Port = 993
llSuccess = loImap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.com")
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Login
llSuccess = loImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Select an IMAP mailbox
llSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
llFetchUids = .T.

// Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
loMessageSet = loImap.Search("ALL",llFetchUids)
if (loImap.LastMethodSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

loBundle = loImap.FetchHeaders(loMessageSet)
if (loImap.LastMethodSuccess <> .T.) then
    release loMessageSet
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
// to a sub-directory.

for i = 0 to loBundle.MessageCount - 1

    loEmail = loBundle.GetEmail(i)

    // Does this email have attachments?
    // Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    // are not actually in the email object because
    // we only downloaded headers.
    // (Had we downloaded the full emails by
    // calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look
    // at the email object's NumAttachments property.)
    lnNumAttach = loImap.GetMailNumAttach(loEmail)

    if (lnNumAttach > 0) then
        // Download the entire email and save the
        // attachments. (Remember, we 
        // need to download the entire email because
        // only the headers were previously downloaded.
        // If the entire emails were downloaded by
        // calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders,
        // this would not be necessary.

        // The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        // headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        // to get the UID from the email object.
        lcUidStr = loEmail.GetHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid")
        lnUid = val(lcUidStr)

        loFullEmail = loImap.FetchSingle(lnUid,.T.)
        if (loImap.LastMethodSuccess = .T.) then
            llSuccess = loFullEmail.SaveAllAttachments("attachmentsDir")
            release loFullEmail
        endif

        for j = 0 to lnNumAttach - 1
            lcFilename = loImap.GetMailAttachFilename(loEmail,j)
            ? lcFilename
        next

    endif

    release loEmail
next

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
llSuccess = loImap.Disconnect()

release loMessageSet
release loBundle


release loImap