(Visual Basic 6.0) Fetch Single Email by UID or Sequence Number

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

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

' 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
Dim success As Long
success = imap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.com")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("***","***")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim email As ChilkatEmail

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

Set email = imap.FetchSingle(uid,isUid)
If (imap.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then

    ' 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 "--"

End If

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