Zig Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Read iCloud Email Account using IMAP

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Demonstrates how to set the IMAP settings for an iCloud email account and downloads the email from Inbox. Zig

const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

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

    const imap = try chilkat.Imap.init();
    defer imap.deinit();

    // Connect to the iCloud IMAP Mail Server
    imap.setSsl(true);
    imap.setPort(993);
    imap.connect("imap.mail.me.com") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // The username is usually the name part of your iCloud email address
    // (for example, emilyparker, not emilyparker@icloud.com).
    imap.login("ICLOUD_USERNAME", "ICLOUD_PASSWORD") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Select an IMAP folder/mailbox
    imap.selectMailbox("Inbox") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Once the folder/mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
    // will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
    // Loop from 1 to NumMessages to fetch each email by sequence number.

    const email = try chilkat.Email.init();
    defer email.deinit();
    var i: i32 = 0;
    const n = imap.getNumMessages();
    const b_uid = false;
    i = 1;
    while (i <= n) : (i += 1) {
        // Download the email by sequence number.
        imap.fetchEmail(false, @as(u32, @intCast(i)), b_uid, email) catch {
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
            return;
        };

        std.debug.print("{d}: {s}\n", .{ i, try email.getFrom(alloc) });
        std.debug.print("    {s}\n", .{try email.getSubject(alloc)});
        std.debug.print("-\n", .{});
    }

    // Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    try imap.disconnect();

    std.debug.print("Success.\n", .{});

    // Sample output:

    //     1: iCloud <noreply@email.apple.com>
    //         Welcome to iCloud Mail.
    //     -
    //     2: "Chilkat Software" <support@chilkatsoft.com>
    //         This is a test
    //     -
    //     Success.
}