VBScript

Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

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

set imap = CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

' Connect to an IMAP server.
' Use TLS
imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

' Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
set messageSet = CreateObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")
success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:
set bundle = CreateObject("Chilkat.EmailBundle")
headersOnly = 1
success = imap.FetchMsgSet(headersOnly,messageSet,bundle)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
' to a sub-directory.
set fullEmail = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
set emailHeader = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
i = 0
Do While i < bundle.MessageCount
    ' The bundle contains email headers..
    success = bundle.EmailAt(i,emailHeader)

    ' Does this email have attachments?
    ' Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    ' are not actually in the email object because
    ' we only downloaded headers.
    numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(emailHeader)

    If (numAttach > 0) Then
        ' Download the entire email and save the
        ' attachments. (Remember, we 
        ' need to download the entire email because
        ' only the headers were previously downloaded.

        ' The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        ' headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        ' to get the UID from the email object.
        uidStr = emailHeader.GetHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid")
        uid = CLng(uidStr)

        success = imap.FetchEmail(0,uid,1,fullEmail)
        If (success = 0) Then
            outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
            WScript.Quit
        End If

        success = fullEmail.SaveAllAttachments("attachmentsDir")

        For j = 0 To numAttach - 1
            filename = imap.GetMailAttachFilename(emailHeader,j)
            outFile.WriteLine(filename)
        Next

    End If

    i = i + 1
Loop

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

outFile.Close