Swift Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

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

    let imap = CkoImap()!

    //  Connect to an IMAP server.
    //  Use TLS
    imap.ssl = true
    imap.port = 993
    success = imap.connect(hostname: "imap.example.com")
    if success == false {
        print("\(imap.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    //  Login
    success = imap.login(login: "myLogin", password: "myPassword")
    if success == false {
        print("\(imap.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    //  Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = imap.selectMailbox(mailbox: "Inbox")
    if success == false {
        print("\(imap.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    //  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.
    var numEmails: Int = imap.numMessages.intValue

    let mset = CkoMessageSet()!

    //  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.
    let email = CkoEmail()!
    var i: Int = 0
    while i < numEmails {
        //  Fetch the email by sequence number.
        success = imap.fetchEmail(headerOnly: false, msgId: i + 1, bUid: false, email: email)
        if success == false {
            print("\(imap.lastErrorText!)")
            return
        }

        //  If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
        mset.insertId(id: i + 1)

    }

    //  If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
    if mset.count.intValue > 0 {
        var destFolder: String? = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
        //  Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
        success = imap.moveMessages(messageSet: mset, destFolder: destFolder)
        if success == false {
            print("\(imap.lastErrorText!)")
            return
        }

    }

    //  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    success = imap.disconnect()

}