VBScript

Imap.GetMailSize vs Email.Size

Shows how to get the total size of an email, as well as the sizes of the attachments. This can be done when either full-emails or headers-only are downloaded. 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 assumes 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("****","****")
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

' Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
' We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
fetchUids = 1
set messageSet = CreateObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")
success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' When downloading headers, each email object contains
' (obviously) the headers, but the body will be missing.
' Attachments will not be included.  However, it is
' possible to get information about the attachments
' as well as the complete size of the email.
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

' Loop over the email objects and display information about each:
set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
i = 0
j = 0
numEmails = bundle.MessageCount
Do While i < numEmails
    success = bundle.EmailAt(i,email)

    ' Display the From and Subject
    outFile.WriteLine(email.From)
    outFile.WriteLine(email.Subject)

    ' Display the recipients:
    j = 0
    Do While j < email.NumTo
        outFile.WriteLine("TO: " & email.GetToName(j) & ", " & email.GetToAddr(j))
        j = j + 1
    Loop
    j = 0
    Do While j < email.NumCC
        outFile.WriteLine("CC: " & email.GetCcName(j) & ", " & email.GetCcAddr(j))
        j = j + 1
    Loop

    ' Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
    outFile.WriteLine(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:
    numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)
    j = 0
    Do While j < numAttach
        outFile.WriteLine(imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j))
        attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j)
        outFile.WriteLine("    size = " & attachSize & " bytes")
        j = j + 1
    Loop

    outFile.WriteLine("--")

    i = i + 1
Loop

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

outFile.Close