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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LOCAL loImap
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnNumToFetch
LOCAL loSa
LOCAL i
LOCAL lcStrMime

loImap = CreateObject('Chilkat.Imap')

*  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
lnSuccess = loImap.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loImap.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Connect to an IMAP server.
lnSuccess = loImap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loImap.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Login
lnSuccess = loImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loImap.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Select an IMAP mailbox
lnSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loImap.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  The NumMessages property contains the number of messages in the selected mailbox.

lnNumToFetch = loImap.NumMessages
*  Download all the email in the Inbox.

loSa = loImap.FetchSequenceAsMime(1,lnNumToFetch)
IF (loSa = NULL ) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loImap.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Loop over the MIME strings contained within sa:

FOR i = 0 TO loSa.Count - 1

    lcStrMime = loSa.GetString(i)

    *  Now you have the MIME source of this email...
NEXT

RELEASE loSa

*  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
loImap.Disconnect()