(Perl) Fetch 1st N Headers of Search Results

Calls Search to get a message set, then downloads the 1st N messages in the message set. There are two equivalent ways of doing it: (1) iterate from 0 to N-1 and download each message individually, or (2) create a new message set that contains the 1st N messages and pass it to FetchHeaders. Both are demonstrated here.

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

# Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox("Inbox");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
$fetchUids = 1;
# Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
# messageSet is a MessageSet
$messageSet = $imap->Search("ALL",$fetchUids);
if ($imap->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$numFound = $messageSet->get_Count();
if ($numFound == 0) {
    print "No messages found." . "\r\n";

    exit;
}

# Get the 1st 10 messages in messageSet.
$upperBound = 10;
if ($numFound < $upperBound) {
    $upperBound = $numFound;
}

$i = 0;
$bUid = $messageSet->get_HasUids();
while ($i < $upperBound) {

    # email is a Email
    $email = $imap->FetchSingleHeader($messageSet->GetId($i),$bUid);
    if ($imap->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
        print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";

        exit;

    }
    else {
        # Do whatever is needed with the email.. 
        # ....

    }

    $i = $i + 1;
}

# Alternatively, create a new message set containing the 1st 10 message id's (UID's) 
# from the search results message set:
$firstTen = chilkat::CkMessageSet->new();

for ($i = 0; $i <= $upperBound - 1; $i++) {
    $firstTen->InsertId($messageSet->GetId($i));
}

# Download the 1st ten headers:

# bundle is a EmailBundle
$bundle = $imap->FetchHeaders($firstTen);
if ($imap->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {

    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Other examples show how to iterate over the emails contained within the bundle...

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