(Lianja) Download MIME Source of Emails in IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates how to download the MIME source for emails on an IMAP server. There are several Chilkat IMAP methods for downloading email into a MIME string: FetchSingleAsMime, FetchSequenceAsMime, and FetchBundleAsMime. This example demonstrates FetchSequenceAsMime.

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// This example assumes 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

// The NumMessages property contains the number of messages in the selected mailbox.
lnNumToFetch = loImap.NumMessages
// Download all the email in the Inbox.

loSa = loImap.FetchSequenceAsMime(1,lnNumToFetch)
if (loImap.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

// Loop over the MIME strings contained within sa:
i = 0
do while i < loSa.Count

    lcStrMime = loSa.GetString(i)

    // Now you have the MIME source of this email...  

    i = i + 1
enddo

release loSa

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


release loImap