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.)

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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;
}

//  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.

bool bUid;
bUid = false;
string mimeStr;
int i;
int n;
n = imap.NumMessages;
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

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

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

//  An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
//  email object, like this:
Chilkat.Email email = null;
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

    //  Download the email by sequence number.
    email = imap.FetchSingle(i,bUid);

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

}

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