Delete Email Individually (One at a time) from an IMAP Mailbox

Downloads email from an IMAP mailbox and deletes emails individually (one by one).

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Chilkat.Imap imap = new Chilkat.Imap();

bool success;

//  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
success = imap.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Connect to an IMAP server.
success = imap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Chilkat.MessageSet messageSet = null;
//  We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
bool fetchUids;
fetchUids = true;
//  Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
messageSet = imap.Search("ALL",fetchUids);
if (messageSet == null ) {
    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Fetch the emails into a bundle object:
Chilkat.EmailBundle bundle = null;
bundle = imap.FetchBundle(messageSet);
if (bundle == null ) {

    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  To mark a complete set of emails for deletion, call SetFlags:
success = imap.SetFlags(messageSet,"Deleted",1);
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Messages can also be marked for deletion individually:
//  Loop over the bundle and mark each message for deletion.
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= bundle.MessageCount - 1; i++) {
    Chilkat.Email email = null;
    email = bundle.GetEmail(i);
    textBox1.Text += email.From + "\r\n";
    textBox1.Text += email.Subject + "\r\n";

    //  To delete this email, set the "Deleted" flag to 1.
    //  The email is not actually deleted until Expunge or
    //  ExpungeAndClose is called.
    success = imap.SetMailFlag(email,"Deleted",1);
    if (success != true) {
        MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    textBox1.Text += "--" + "\r\n";

}

success = imap.ExpungeAndClose();
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

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