VBScript

List Email UIDs

List the UIDs of each email in a mailbox. 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

set imap = CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

' 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
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

i = 0
n = messageSet.Count
Do While i < n
    outFile.WriteLine(messageSet.GetId(i))
    i = i + 1
Loop

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

outFile.Close