Xojo Plugin

IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.) Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

Dim imap As New 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 = True
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
// will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
// You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
// fetch each message by sequence number.

Dim bUid As Boolean
bUid = False
Dim mimeStr As String
Dim i As Int32
Dim n As Int32
n = imap.NumMessages
For i = 1 To n

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    mimeStr = imap.FetchSingleAsMime(i,bUid)

    // ... your application may process each MIME string...
Next

// An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
// email object, like this:
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
For i = 1 To n

    // Download the email by sequence number.
    success = imap.FetchEmail(False,i,bUid,email)

    // ... your application may process the email object...

Next

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