Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

Download Chilkat Perl Module

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 = $imap->Login('admin@chilkatsoft.com',"*myPassword5*");
if ($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 == null ) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

# Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

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

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

# Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
# to a sub-directory.

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

    $email = $bundle->GetEmail($i);

    # Does this email have attachments?
    # Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    # are not actually in the email object because
    # we only downloaded headers.
    # (Had we downloaded the full emails by
    # calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look
    # at the email object's NumAttachments property.)
    $numAttach = $imap->GetMailNumAttach($email);

    if ($numAttach > 0) {
        # Download the entire email and save the
        # attachments. (Remember, we
        # need to download the entire email because
        # only the headers were previously downloaded.
        # If the entire emails were downloaded by
        # calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders,
        # this would not be necessary.

        # The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        # headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        # to get the UID from the email object.
        $uidStr = $email->getHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid");
        $uid = $uidStr;

        $fullEmail = $imap->FetchSingle($uid,1);
        if (!($fullEmail == null )) {
            $fullEmail->SaveAllAttachments("attachmentsDir");

        }

        for ($j = 0; $j <= $numAttach - 1; $j++) {
            $filename = $imap->getMailAttachFilename($email,$j);
            print $filename . "\r\n";
        }

    }

}

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