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Visual Basic 6.0 Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Fetch Single Email by UID or Sequence Number

Assuming the UID is known, download a single email by UID from an IMAP mail server.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  This example requires 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("***","***")
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

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail

Dim uid As Long
uid = 2014
Dim isUid As Long
isUid = 1

success = imap.FetchEmail(0,uid,isUid,email)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Display the From and Subject
Debug.Print email.FromAddress
Debug.Print email.Subject

'  Display the Body property, which is the default body.
'  If an email has an HTML body, the Body property contains
'  the HTML source.  Otherwise it contains the plain-text
'  body.
Debug.Print "---- EMAIL BODY ----"
Debug.Print email.Body
Debug.Print "--------------------"

'  Display the recipients:
Dim j As Long
For j = 0 To email.NumTo - 1
    Debug.Print email.GetToName(j) & ", " & email.GetToAddr(j)
Next
For j = 0 To email.NumCC - 1
    Debug.Print email.GetCcName(j) & ", " & email.GetCcAddr(j)
Next

'  Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
Debug.Print email.Size

'  When a full email is downloaded, we would use the
'  email.NumAttachments property in conjunction with the
'  email.GetMailAttach* methods.
'  However, when an email object contains only the header,
'  we need to access the attachment info differently:
Dim numAttach As Long
numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)
Debug.Print numAttach

For j = 0 To numAttach - 1
    Debug.Print imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j)
    Dim attachSize As Long
    attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j)
    Debug.Print "    size = " & attachSize & " bytes"
Next

Debug.Print "--"

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