Xbase++ Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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. Xbase++

LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oImap
LOCAL nNumEmails
LOCAL oMset
LOCAL oEmail
LOCAL i
LOCAL cDestFolder

nSuccess := 0

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

oImap := CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

//  Connect to an IMAP server.
//  Use TLS
oImap:Ssl := 1
oImap:Port := 993
nSuccess := oImap:Connect("imap.example.com")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oImap:LastErrorText
    oImap:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Login
nSuccess := oImap:Login("myLogin", "myPassword")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oImap:LastErrorText
    oImap:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
nSuccess := oImap:SelectMailbox("Inbox")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oImap:LastErrorText
    oImap:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  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.
oImap: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.
nNumEmails := oImap:NumMessages

oMset := CreateObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")

//  Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
oMset: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.
oEmail := CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
i := 0
DO WHILE i < nNumEmails
    //  Fetch the email by sequence number.
    nSuccess := oImap:FetchEmail(0, i + 1, 0, oEmail)
    IF (nSuccess == 0)
        ? oImap:LastErrorText
        oImap:destroy()
        oMset:destroy()
        oEmail:destroy()
        RETURN
    ENDIF

    //  If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
    oMset:InsertId(i + 1)

ENDDO

//  If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
IF (oMset:Count > 0)
    cDestFolder := "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    //  Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    nSuccess := oImap:MoveMessages(oMset, cDestFolder)
    IF (nSuccess == 0)
        ? oImap:LastErrorText
        oImap:destroy()
        oMset:destroy()
        oEmail:destroy()
        RETURN
    ENDIF

ENDIF

//  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
nSuccess := oImap:Disconnect()

oImap:destroy()
oMset:destroy()
oEmail:destroy()