Visual Basic 6.0

Delete Email Individually (One at a time) from an IMAP Mailbox

Downloads email from an IMAP mailbox and deletes emails individually (one by one). Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim imap As New ChilkatImap

' Connect to an IMAP server.
' Use TLS
imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
Dim fetchUids As Long
fetchUids = 1

' Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
Dim messageSet As New MessageSet
success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Fetch the emails into a bundle object:
Dim bundle As New ChilkatEmailBundle
Dim headersOnly As Long
headersOnly = 0
success = imap.FetchMsgSet(headersOnly,messageSet,bundle)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' To mark a complete set of emails for deletion, call SetFlags:
success = imap.SetFlags(messageSet,"Deleted",1)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Messages can also be marked for deletion individually:
' Loop over the bundle and mark each message for deletion.
Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
Dim i As Long
i = 0
Dim numEmails As Long
numEmails = bundle.MessageCount
Do While i < numEmails
    success = bundle.EmailAt(i,email)

    Debug.Print email.From
    Debug.Print email.Subject

    ' To delete this email, set the "Deleted" flag to 1.
    ' The email is not actually deleted until Expunge or
    ' ExpungeAndClose is called.
    success = imap.SetMailFlag(email,"Deleted",1)
    If (success = 0) Then
        Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "--"

    i = i + 1
Loop

success = imap.ExpungeAndClose()
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

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