React Native Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Read iCloud Email Account using IMAP

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Demonstrates how to set the IMAP settings for an iCloud email account and downloads the email from Inbox. React Native

import { Email, Imap } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  const imap = new Imap();

  // Connect to the iCloud IMAP Mail Server
  imap.ssl = true;
  imap.port = 993;
  try {
    await imap.connectAsync('imap.mail.me.com');
  } catch {
    console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // The username is usually the name part of your iCloud email address 
  // (for example, emilyparker, not emilyparker@icloud.com).
  try {
    await imap.loginAsync('ICLOUD_USERNAME', 'ICLOUD_PASSWORD');
  } catch {
    console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Select an IMAP folder/mailbox
  try {
    await imap.selectMailboxAsync('Inbox');
  } catch {
    console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Once the folder/mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
  // will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
  // Loop from 1 to NumMessages to fetch each email by sequence number.

  const email = new Email();
  const n = imap.numMessages;
  const bUid = false;
  for (let i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    try {
      await imap.fetchEmailAsync(false, i, bUid, email);
    } catch {
      console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
      return;
    }

    console.log(`${i}: ${email.from}`);
    console.log(`    ${email.subject}`);
    console.log('-');
  }

  // Disconnect from the IMAP server.
  await imap.disconnectAsync();

  console.log('Success.');

  // Sample output:

  // 	1: iCloud <noreply@email.apple.com>
  // 	    Welcome to iCloud Mail.
  // 	-
  // 	2: "Chilkat Software" <support@chilkatsoft.com>
  // 	    This is a test
  // 	-
  // 	Success.
}