(PowerBuilder) Determine the Number of Unseen Email Messages

Demonstrates how to determine how many unseen messages exist in an email account on an IMAP server.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Imap
integer li_TotalNum
integer li_FetchUids
oleobject loo_MessageSet
integer li_NumUnseen
integer i

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("***","***")
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

// After selecting the mailbox. the total number of emails
// is immediately available:
li_TotalNum = loo_Imap.NumMessages
Write-Debug "Num messages = " + string(li_TotalNum)

// To determine the number of unseen messages, a call
// to Search is required, which returns the set of UIDs
// of all unseen messages.

// We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
li_FetchUids = 1
loo_MessageSet = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_MessageSet.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")

li_Success = loo_Imap.QueryMbx("UNSEEN",li_FetchUids,loo_MessageSet)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    destroy loo_MessageSet
    return
end if

li_NumUnseen = loo_MessageSet.Count
Write-Debug string(li_NumUnseen)

Write-Debug "UIDs ----"

// Display the UIDs
i = 0
do while i < loo_MessageSet.Count
    Write-Debug string(loo_MessageSet.GetId(i))
    i = i + 1
loop

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


destroy loo_Imap
destroy loo_MessageSet