Download MIME Source of Emails in IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates how to download the MIME source for emails on an IMAP server. There are several Chilkat IMAP methods for downloading email into a MIME string: FetchSingleAsMime, FetchSequenceAsMime, and FetchBundleAsMime. This example demonstrates FetchSequenceAsMime.

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

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
imap: TChilkatImap;
success: Integer;
numToFetch: Integer;
sa: CHILKATUTILLib_TLB.ICkStringArray;
i: Integer;
strMime: 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;

//  The NumMessages property contains the number of messages in the selected mailbox.
numToFetch := imap.NumMessages;
//  Download all the email in the Inbox.

sa := imap.FetchSequenceAsMime(1,numToFetch) as CHILKATUTILLib_TLB.ICkStringArray;
if (sa = nil ) then
  begin
    ShowMessage(imap.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Loop over the MIME strings contained within sa:

for i := 0 to sa.Count - 1 do
  begin

    strMime := sa.GetString(i);

    //  Now you have the MIME source of this email...
  end;

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


end;