(PowerShell) Retrieve UIDL's from POP3 Server

Retrieve a list of UIDLs from a POP3 server. A UIDL is an identifier consisting of 1 to 70 characters in the range 0x21 to 0x7E, which uniquely identifies a messages within a mailbox and persists across sessions.

Chilkat .NET Downloads Chilkat .NET Assemblies

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

$mailman = New-Object Chilkat.MailMan

$mailman.MailHost = "pop.example.com"

$mailman.PopUsername = "myLogin"
$mailman.PopPassword = "myPassword"

$mailman.MailPort = 995
$mailman.PopSsl = $true

$sa = $mailman.GetUidls()
if ($mailman.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($mailman.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Download each email by UIDL.

$i = 0
$numUidls = $sa.Count
while ($i -lt $numUidls) {
    $uidl = $sa.GetString($i)
    $($uidl)
    $i = $i + 1
}