IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.)

Download Chilkat IMAP ActiveX

LOCAL loImap
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnBUid
LOCAL lcMimeStr
LOCAL i
LOCAL n
LOCAL loEmail

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

*  Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
*  will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
*  You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
*  fetch each message by sequence number.

lnBUid = 0

n = loImap.NumMessages
FOR i = 1 TO n

    *  Download the email by sequence number.
    lcMimeStr = loImap.FetchSingleAsMime(i,lnBUid)

    *  ... your application may process each MIME string...
NEXT

*  An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
*  email object, like this:

FOR i = 1 TO n

    *  Download the email by sequence number.
    loEmail = loImap.FetchSingle(i,lnBUid)

    *  ... your application may process the email object...

    RELEASE loEmail
NEXT

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