PowerBuilder Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Move Selected Emails to another Mailbox Folder

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Downloads emails one by one in a selected mailbox, decides which emails are to be moved, and then moves the set of messages to another mailbox folder. PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Imap
integer li_NumEmails
oleobject loo_Mset
oleobject loo_Email
integer i
string ls_DestFolder

li_Success = 0

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

loo_Imap = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Imap.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Imap")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Imap
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

//  Connect to an IMAP server.
//  Use TLS
loo_Imap.Ssl = 1
loo_Imap.Port = 993
li_Success = loo_Imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    return
end if

//  Login
li_Success = loo_Imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    return
end if

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
li_Success = loo_Imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    return
end if

//  Normally, when an email is downloaded, its "Seen" flag is automatically set.
//  We don't want our program to be interfering with the "Seen" flags.
//  To do this, set the PeekMode to 1.
loo_Imap.PeekMode = 1

//  After selecting the mailbox, the NumMessages property
//  will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
//  When sequence numbers (not UIDs) are used to reference emails,
//  they range from 1 to N, where N is the number of messages in the mailbox.
//  This example will download the headers by sequence numbers.
li_NumEmails = loo_Imap.NumMessages

loo_Mset = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Mset.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")

//  Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
loo_Mset.HasUids = 0

//  Fetch each email and decide for each if it is to be moved
//  to a particular other mailbox.  If so, we'll add the sequence number to
//  the mset, and then move all emails in the mset to the other mailbox.
loo_Email = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Email.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")

i = 0
do while i < li_NumEmails
    //  Fetch the email by sequence number.
    li_Success = loo_Imap.FetchEmail(0,i + 1,0,loo_Email)
    if li_Success = 0 then
        Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
        destroy loo_Imap
        destroy loo_Mset
        destroy loo_Email
        return
    end if

    //  If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
    loo_Mset.InsertId(i + 1)

loop

//  If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
if loo_Mset.Count > 0 then
    ls_DestFolder = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    //  Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    li_Success = loo_Imap.MoveMessages(loo_Mset,ls_DestFolder)
    if li_Success = 0 then
        Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
        destroy loo_Imap
        destroy loo_Mset
        destroy loo_Email
        return
    end if

end if

//  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
li_Success = loo_Imap.Disconnect()


destroy loo_Imap
destroy loo_Mset
destroy loo_Email