(Classic ASP) 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.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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<%
success = 0

set imap = Server.CreateObject("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 = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( imap.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
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.

bUid = 0

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:
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
For i = 1 To n

    ' Download the email by sequence number.
    success = imap.FetchEmail(0,i,bUid,email)

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

Next

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

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