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Visual Basic 6.0 Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Read a POP3 Mailbox

Read a POP3 mailbox and display the FROM and SUBJECT header fields of each email.

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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.

'  The mailman object is used for receiving (POP3) 
'  and sending (SMTP) email.
Dim mailman As New ChilkatMailMan

'  Set the POP3 server's hostname
mailman.MailHost = "pop.example.com"

'  Set the POP3 login/password.
mailman.PopUsername = "myLogin"
mailman.PopPassword = "myPassword"

'  Copy the all email from the user's POP3 mailbox 
'  into a bundle object.  The email remains on the server.
Dim bundle As New ChilkatEmailBundle
Dim keepOnServer As Long
keepOnServer = 1
Dim headersOnly As Long
headersOnly = 0
'  Irrelevent because we are NOT downloading headers-only
Dim numBodyLines As Long
numBodyLines = 0
success = mailman.FetchAll(keepOnServer,headersOnly,numBodyLines,bundle)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print mailman.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim i As Long
i = 0
Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
Do While i < bundle.MessageCount
    success = bundle.EmailAt(i,email)

    Debug.Print "From: " & email.From
    Debug.Print "Subject: " & email.Subject

    i = i + 1
Loop

success = mailman.Pop3EndSession()