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uses
    Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
    Dialogs, StdCtrls,
    CHILKATMAILLib2_TLB,
    CHILKATIMAPLib_TLB,
    OleCtrls;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
imap: TChilkatImap;
success: Integer;
messageSet: CHILKATIMAPLib_TLB.IMessageSet;
fetchUids: Integer;
bundle: CHILKATIMAPLib_TLB.IChilkatEmailBundle2;
i: Integer;
email: CHILKATMAILLib2_TLB.IChilkatEmail2;
numAttach: Integer;
uidStr: String;
uid: Integer;
fullEmail: CHILKATMAILLib2_TLB.IChilkatEmail2;
j: Integer;
filename: String;

begin
imap := TChilkatImap.Create(Self);

//  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
success := imap.UnlockComponent('Anything for 30-day trial');
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    ShowMessage(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Connect to an IMAP server.
success := imap.Connect('mail.chilkatsoft.com');
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    ShowMessage(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Login
success := imap.Login('myLogin','myPassword');
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    ShowMessage(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
success := imap.SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    ShowMessage(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
fetchUids := 1;

//  Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
messageSet := imap.Search('ALL',fetchUids);
if (messageSet = nil ) then
  begin
    ShowMessage(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

bundle := imap.FetchHeaders(messageSet);
if (bundle = nil ) then
  begin

    ShowMessage(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
//  to a sub-directory.

for i := 0 to bundle.MessageCount - 1 do
  begin

    email := bundle.GetEmail(i) As CHILKATMAILLib2_TLB.IChilkatEmail2;

    //  Does this email have attachments?
    //  Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    //  are not actually in the email object because
    //  we only downloaded headers.
    //  (Had we downloaded the full emails by
    //  calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look
    //  at the email object's NumAttachments property.)
    numAttach := imap.GetMailNumAttach(email As CHILKATIMAPLib_TLB.IChilkatEmail2);

    if (numAttach > 0) then
      begin
        //  Download the entire email and save the
        //  attachments. (Remember, we
        //  need to download the entire email because
        //  only the headers were previously downloaded.
        //  If the entire emails were downloaded by
        //  calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders,
        //  this would not be necessary.

        //  The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        //  headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        //  to get the UID from the email object.
        uidStr := email.GetHeaderField('ckx-imap-uid');
        uid := StrToInt(uidStr);

        fullEmail := imap.FetchSingle(uid,1) As CHILKATMAILLib2_TLB.IChilkatEmail2;
        if (not (fullEmail = nil )) then
          begin
            fullEmail.SaveAllAttachments('attachmentsDir');

          end;

        for j := 0 to numAttach - 1 do
          begin
            filename := imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email As CHILKATIMAPLib_TLB.IChilkatEmail2,j);
            Memo1.Lines.Add(filename);
          end;

      end;

  end;

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


end;