(Perl) Upload (Append) Email to an IMAP Mailbox and get the UID of the Appended Email

Upload / append an email to an IMAP mailbox and get the UID of the appended email.

Chilkat Perl Downloads Perl Module for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Alpine Linux, Solaris

use chilkat();

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

$imap = chilkat::CkImap->new();

# Connect to an IMAP server.
# Use TLS
$imap->put_Ssl(1);
$imap->put_Port(993);
$success = $imap->Connect("imap.someMailServer.com");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Login
$success = $imap->Login("myLogin","myPassword");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Check the capabilities of the IMAP server.
$cap = $imap->capability();
print "IMAP capabilities: " . $cap . "\r\n";

# If the capabilities string contains the substring "UIDPLUS", then 
# the UID of the appended email will be available in the AppendUid property (see below).

# For example, the GMail IMAP server has these capabilities (at this current time)
# * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN 
# X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT 
# APPENDLIMIT=35882577 LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();

# Load the email from a .eml file.
$success = $email->LoadEml("myEmail.eml");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->AppendMail("Inbox",$email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# If the IMAP server supports the UIDPLUS extension, then the 
# imap.AppendUid will contain the UID of the appended email.
# Otherwise AppendUid will be 0.
print "UID of appended email: " . $imap->get_AppendUid() . "\r\n";

# If the IMAP server does NOT have UIDPLUS, then a program can 
# first select the mailbox, get the value of the UidNext property,
# and then append.  The appended email SHOULD have a UID equal to 
# the UidNext that was obtained just prior to appending (assuming no other
# program is simultaneously appending an email to the same mailbox).

# Note: It is not required to select a mailbox to append.  The select is only
# done for the purpose of obtaining the UIDNEXT value.
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox("Inbox");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$uidNext = $imap->get_UidNext();

$success = $imap->AppendMail("Inbox",$email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "The UID of the appended email SHOULD be " . $uidNext . "\r\n";

print "Email uploaded to Inbox!" . "\r\n";

# Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$success = $imap->Disconnect();