Delete Email Individually (One at a time) from an IMAP Mailbox

Downloads email from an IMAP mailbox and deletes emails individually (one by one).

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use chilkat();

$imap = new chilkat::CkImap();

#  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
$success = $imap->UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Connect to an IMAP server.
$success = $imap->Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Login
$success = $imap->Login("myLogin","myPassword");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Select an IMAP mailbox
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox("Inbox");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  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 eq null ) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Fetch the emails into a bundle object:

$bundle = $imap->FetchBundle($messageSet);
if ($bundle eq null ) {

    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  To mark a complete set of emails for deletion, call SetFlags:
$success = $imap->SetFlags($messageSet,"Deleted",1);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Messages can also be marked for deletion individually:
#  Loop over the bundle and mark each message for deletion.

for ($i = 0; $i <= $bundle->get_MessageCount() - 1; $i++) {

    $email = $bundle->GetEmail($i);
    print $email->ck_from() . "\r\n";
    print $email->subject() . "\r\n";

    #  To delete this email, set the "Deleted" flag to 1.
    #  The email is not actually deleted until Expunge or
    #  ExpungeAndClose is called.
    $success = $imap->SetMailFlag($email,"Deleted",1);
    if ($success != 1) {
        print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    print "--" . "\r\n";

}

$success = $imap->ExpungeAndClose();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$imap->Disconnect();