Sort Email by Date

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Read a POP3 mailbox and sort by Date. The POP3 protocol does not provide the ability to download emails within a date range. However, once emails are downloaded, they may be sorted by date using the Chilkat email bundle object.

//  The mailman object is used for receiving (POP3)
//  and sending (SMTP) email.
Chilkat.MailMan mailman = new Chilkat.MailMan();

//  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
bool success;
success = mailman.UnlockComponent("30-day trial");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show("Component unlock failed");
    return;
}

//  Set the POP3 server's hostname
mailman.MailHost = "mail.chilkatsoft.com";

//  Set the POP3 login/password.
mailman.PopUsername = "matt@chilkatsoft.com";
mailman.PopPassword = "****";

Chilkat.EmailBundle bundle = null;

//  Copy the all email from the user's POP3 mailbox
//  into a bundle object.  The email remains on the server.
//  You may copy full emails, or headers-only. Call CopyMail
//  to copy full emails.  Call GetAllHeaders to copy email headers.
//  bundle = mailman.CopyMail();
int numBodyLines;
numBodyLines = 1;
bundle = mailman.GetAllHeaders(numBodyLines);

if (bundle == null ) {
    MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Sort the email in the bundle by date.
bool ascending;
ascending = true;
bundle.SortByDate(ascending);

int i;
Chilkat.Email email = null;
for (i = 0; i <= bundle.MessageCount - 1; i++) {
    email = bundle.GetEmail(i);
    textBox1.Text += email.LocalDate + "\r\n";
    textBox1.Refresh();

}