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Visual Basic 6.0

List Email UIDs

List the UIDs of each email in a mailbox.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim imap As New ChilkatImap

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

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

' Login
success = imap.Login("MY-IMAP-LOGIN","MY-IMAP-PASSWORD")
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

' Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
' We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
Dim fetchUids As Long
fetchUids = 1
Dim messageSet As New MessageSet
success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim i As Long
i = 0
Dim n As Long
n = messageSet.Count
Do While i < n
    Debug.Print messageSet.GetId(i)
    i = i + 1
Loop

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