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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. PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

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

$imap = New-Object Chilkat.Imap

# Connect to an IMAP server.
# Use TLS
$imap.Ssl = $true
$imap.Port = 993
$success = $imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Login
$success = $imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# 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 $true.
$imap.PeekMode = $true

# 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.
$numEmails = $imap.NumMessages

$mset = New-Object Chilkat.MessageSet

# Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
$mset.HasUids = $false

# 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.
$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$i = 0
while ($i -lt $numEmails) {
    # Fetch the email by sequence number.
    $success = $imap.FetchEmail($false,$i + 1,$false,$email)
    if ($success -eq $false) {
        $($imap.LastErrorText)
        exit
    }

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

}

# If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
if ($mset.Count -gt 0) {
    $destFolder = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    # Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    $success = $imap.MoveMessages($mset,$destFolder)
    if ($success -eq $false) {
        $($imap.LastErrorText)
        exit
    }

}

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