(DataFlex) Move Selected Emails to another Mailbox Folder

Downloads emails one by one in a selected mailbox, decides which emails are to be moved, and then moves the set of messages to another mailbox folder.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Use ChilkatAx-9.5.0-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Handle hoImap
    Boolean iSuccess
    Integer iNumEmails
    Variant vMset
    Handle hoMset
    Integer i
    Variant vEmail
    Handle hoEmail
    String sDestFolder
    String sTemp1
    Integer iTemp1
    Boolean bTemp1

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatImap)) To hoImap
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoImap))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoImap
    End

    // Connect to an IMAP server.
    // Use TLS
    Set ComSsl Of hoImap To True
    Set ComPort Of hoImap To 993
    Get ComConnect Of hoImap "imap.someMailServer.com" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoImap To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // Login
    Get ComLogin Of hoImap "myLogin" "myPassword" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoImap To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // Select an IMAP mailbox
    Get ComSelectMailbox Of hoImap "Inbox" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoImap To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // Normally, when an email is downloaded, its "Seen" flag is automatically set.
    // We don't want our program to be interfering with the "Seen" flags.
    // To do this, set the PeekMode to True.
    Set ComPeekMode Of hoImap To True

    // After selecting the mailbox, the NumMessages property
    // will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
    // When sequence numbers (not UIDs) are used to reference emails,
    // they range from 1 to N, where N is the number of messages in the mailbox.
    // This example will download the headers by sequence numbers.
    Get ComNumMessages Of hoImap To iNumEmails

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMessageSet)) To hoMset
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoMset))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoMset
    End

    // Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
    Set ComHasUids Of hoMset To False

    // Fetch each email and decide for each if it is to be moved
    // to a particular other mailbox.  If so, we'll add the sequence number to
    // the mset, and then move all emails in the mset to the other mailbox.
    Move 0 To i
    While (i < iNumEmails)
        // Fetch the email by sequence number.
        Get ComFetchSingle Of hoImap (i + 1) False To vEmail
        If (IsComObject(vEmail)) Begin
            Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatEmail)) To hoEmail
            Set pvComObject Of hoEmail To vEmail
        End
        Get ComLastMethodSuccess Of hoImap To bTemp1
        If (bTemp1 <> True) Begin
            Get ComLastErrorText Of hoImap To sTemp1
            Showln sTemp1
            Procedure_Return
        End

        // If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
        Send ComInsertId To hoMset (i + 1)

        Send Destroy of hoEmail
    Loop

    // If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
    Get ComCount Of hoMset To iTemp1
    If (iTemp1 > 0) Begin
        Move "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder" To sDestFolder
        // Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
        Get pvComObject of hoMset to vMset
        Get ComMoveMessages Of hoImap vMset sDestFolder To iSuccess
        If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
            Get ComLastErrorText Of hoImap To sTemp1
            Showln sTemp1
            Procedure_Return
        End

    End

    // Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    Get ComDisconnect Of hoImap To iSuccess


End_Procedure