Download MIME Source of Emails in IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates how to download the MIME source for emails on an IMAP server. There are several Chilkat IMAP methods for downloading email into a MIME string: FetchSingleAsMime, FetchSequenceAsMime, and FetchBundleAsMime. This example demonstrates FetchSequenceAsMime.

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set imap = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

'  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
success = imap.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Connect to an IMAP server.
success = imap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  The NumMessages property contains the number of messages in the selected mailbox.
numToFetch = imap.NumMessages
'  Download all the email in the Inbox.

' sa is a Chilkat.CkStringArray
Set sa = imap.FetchSequenceAsMime(1,numToFetch)
If (sa Is Nothing ) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Loop over the MIME strings contained within sa:

For i = 0 To sa.Count - 1

    strMime = sa.GetString(i)

    '  Now you have the MIME source of this email...
Next

'  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect 


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