VBScript

Move Selected Emails to another Mailbox Folder

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Downloads emails one by one in a selected mailbox, decides which emails are to be moved, and then moves the set of messages to another mailbox folder. 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

' Normally, when an email is downloaded, its "Seen" flag is automatically set.
' We don't want our program to be interfering with the "Seen" flags.
' To do this, set the PeekMode to 1.
imap.PeekMode = 1

' After selecting the mailbox, the NumMessages property
' will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
' When sequence numbers (not UIDs) are used to reference emails,
' they range from 1 to N, where N is the number of messages in the mailbox.
' This example will download the headers by sequence numbers.
numEmails = imap.NumMessages

set mset = CreateObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")

' Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
mset.HasUids = 0

' Fetch each email and decide for each if it is to be moved
' to a particular other mailbox.  If so, we'll add the sequence number to
' the mset, and then move all emails in the mset to the other mailbox.
set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
i = 0
Do While i < numEmails
    ' Fetch the email by sequence number.
    success = imap.FetchEmail(0,i + 1,0,email)
    If (success = 0) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    ' If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
    mset.InsertId i + 1

Loop

' If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
If (mset.Count > 0) Then
    destFolder = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    ' Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    success = imap.MoveMessages(mset,destFolder)
    If (success = 0) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

End If

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

outFile.Close