Tcl

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. Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set imap [new_CkImap]

# Connect to an IMAP server.
# Use TLS
CkImap_put_Ssl $imap 1
CkImap_put_Port $imap 993
set success [CkImap_Connect $imap "imap.example.com"]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkImap_lastErrorText $imap]
    delete_CkImap $imap
    exit
}

# Login
set success [CkImap_Login $imap "myLogin" "myPassword"]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkImap_lastErrorText $imap]
    delete_CkImap $imap
    exit
}

# Select an IMAP mailbox
set success [CkImap_SelectMailbox $imap "Inbox"]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkImap_lastErrorText $imap]
    delete_CkImap $imap
    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 1.
CkImap_put_PeekMode $imap 1

# 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.
set numEmails [CkImap_get_NumMessages $imap]

set mset [new_CkMessageSet]

# Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
CkMessageSet_put_HasUids $mset 0

# 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.
set email [new_CkEmail]

set i 0
while {$i < $numEmails} {
    # Fetch the email by sequence number.
    set success [CkImap_FetchEmail $imap 0 [expr $i + 1] 0 $email]
    if {$success == 0} then {
        puts [CkImap_lastErrorText $imap]
        delete_CkImap $imap
        delete_CkMessageSet $mset
        delete_CkEmail $email
        exit
    }

    # If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
    CkMessageSet_InsertId $mset [expr $i + 1]

}

# If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
if {[CkMessageSet_get_Count $mset] > 0} then {
    set destFolder "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    # Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    set success [CkImap_MoveMessages $imap $mset $destFolder]
    if {$success == 0} then {
        puts [CkImap_lastErrorText $imap]
        delete_CkImap $imap
        delete_CkMessageSet $mset
        delete_CkEmail $email
        exit
    }

}

# Disconnect from the IMAP server.
set success [CkImap_Disconnect $imap]

delete_CkImap $imap
delete_CkMessageSet $mset
delete_CkEmail $email