Lianja Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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.) Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

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.example.com")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

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

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
llSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (llSuccess = .F.) 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:
loEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
for i = 1 to n

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

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

next

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


release loImap
release loEmail