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(Excel) Search IMAP Mailbox for Email Matching Criteria

Searching an IMAP mailbox for messages that match search criteria.

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

Dim imap As Chilkat.Imap
Set imap = Chilkat.NewImap

' Connect to an IMAP server.
' Use TLS
imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993

success = imap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.com")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.

fetchUids = True

' Here are examples of different search criteria:

' Return all messages.

allMsgs = "ALL"

' Search for already-answered emails.

answered = "ANSWERED"

' Search for messages on a specific date.
' The date string is DD-Month-YYYY where Month is
' Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, or Dec.

onDate = "SENTON 05-Mar-2007"

' Search for messages between two dates.  SENTBEFORE
' finds emails sent before a date, and SENTSINCE finds
' email sent on or after a date.  The "AND" operation
' is implied by joining criteria, separated by spaces.

betweenDates = "SENTSINCE 01-Mar-2007 SENTBEFORE 05-Mar-2007"

' Another example of AND: find all unanswered emails
' sent after 04-Mar-2007 with "Problem" in the subject:

complexSearch1 = "UNANSWERED SENTSINCE 04-Mar-2007 Subject ""Problem"""

' Find messages with a specific string in the body:

bodySearch = "BODY ""problem solved"""

' Using OR.  The syntax is OR <criteria1> <criteria2>. 
' The "OR" comes first, followed by each criteria.
' For example, to match all emails with "Help" or "Question" in the subject.
' You'll notice that literal strings may be quoted or unquoted.
' If a literal contains SPACE characters, quote it:

orSearch = "OR SUBJECT Help SUBJECT Question"

' ----------------------------------------------
' Strings are case-insensitive when searching....
' ----------------------------------------------

' Find all emails sent from yahoo.com addresses:

fromSearch = "FROM yahoo.com"
' Find all emails sent from anyone with "John" in their name:

johnSearch = "FROM John"

' Find emails with the RECENT flag set:

recentSearch = "RECENT"

' Find emails that don't have the recent flag set:

notRecentSearch = "NOT RECENT"
' This is synonymous with "OLD":

oldSearch = "OLD"

' Find all emails marked for deletion:

markedForDeleteSearch = "DELETED"

' Find all emails having a specified header field with a value
' containing a substring:

headerSearch = "HEADER DomainKey-Signature paypal.com"

' Find any emails having a specific header field.  If the 
' 2nd argument to the "HEADER" criteria is an empty string,
' any email having the header field is returned regardless
' of the header field's content.
' Find any emails with a DomainKey-Signature field:

headerExistsSearch = "HEADER DomainKey-Signature """""

' Find NEW emails: these are emails that have the RECENT flag
' set, but not the SEEN flag:

newSearch = "NEW"

' Find emails larger than a certain number of bytes:

sizeLargerSearch = "LARGER 500000"

' Find emails marked as seen or not already seen:

seenSearch = "SEEN"

notSeenSearch = "NOT SEEN"

' Find emails having a given substring in the TO header field:

toSearch = "TO support@chilkatsoft.com"
' A more long-winded way to do the same thing:

toSearch2 = "HEADER TO support@chilkatsoft.com"

' Find emails smaller than a size in bytes:

smallerSearch = "SMALLER 30000"

' Find emails that have a substring anywhere in the header
' or body:

fullSubstringSearch = "TEXT ""Zip Component"""

' Pass any of the above strings here to test a search:
Set messageSet = imap.Search(orSearch,fetchUids)
If (imap.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

Set bundle = imap.FetchHeaders(messageSet)
If (imap.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then

    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Display the Subject and From of each email.

i = 0
Do While i < bundle.MessageCount

    Set email = bundle.GetEmail(i)

    Debug.Print email.GetHeaderField("Date")
    Debug.Print email.Subject
    Debug.Print email.From
    Debug.Print "--"

    i = i + 1
Loop

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
success = imap.Disconnect()


 

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