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Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

List Email UIDs

List the UIDs of each email in a mailbox.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

imap = Chilkat::CkImap.new()

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

#  Connect to an IMAP server.
#  Use TLS
imap.put_Ssl(true)
imap.put_Port(993)
success = imap.Connect("MY-IMAP-DOMAIN")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Login
success = imap.Login("MY-IMAP-LOGIN","MY-IMAP-PASSWORD")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
#  We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
fetchUids = true
messageSet = Chilkat::CkMessageSet.new()
success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet)
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

i = 0
n = messageSet.get_Count()
while i < n
    print messageSet.GetId(i).to_s() + "\n";
    i = i + 1
end

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