(Lianja) IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.)

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loImap = createobject("CkImap")

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

// 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

// Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
// will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
// You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
// fetch each message by sequence number.

llBUid = .F.

n = loImap.NumMessages
for i = 1 to n

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    lcMimeStr = loImap.FetchSingleAsMime(i,llBUid)

    // ... your application may process each MIME string...
next

// An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
// email object, like this:

for i = 1 to n

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    loEmail = loImap.FetchSingle(i,llBUid)

    // ... your application may process the email object...

    release loEmail
next

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


release loImap