Download POP3 Email to MIME Strings

Download the email from a POP3 mailbox directly into MIME strings, without parsing into email objects.

Chilkat Module for Perl 5.8.*

Chilkat Module for Perl 5.10.*

use chilkat;

#  The mailman object is used for receiving (POP3)
#  and sending (SMTP) email.
$mailman = new chilkat::CkMailMan();

#  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
$success = $mailman->UnlockComponent("30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print "Component unlock failed" . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Set the POP3 server's hostname
$mailman->put_MailHost("mail.chilkatsoft.com");

#  Set the POP3 login/password.
$mailman->put_PopUsername('matt@chilkatsoft.com');
$mailman->put_PopPassword("myPassword");

#  First, get the complete set of UIDLs for the email in the POP3 mailbox:

$saUidls = $mailman->GetUidls();
if ($saUidls eq null ) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Download the email as MIME strings (no parsing of the MIME)

$saMime = $mailman->FetchMultipleMime($saUidls);
if ($saMime eq null ) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\n";

    exit;
}

#  MIME strings may be loaded into email objects:

$email = new chilkat::CkEmail();
for ($i = 0; $i <= $saMime->get_Count() - 1; $i++) {
    $email->SetFromMimeText($saMime->getString($i));
    print $email->ck_from() . "\r\n";
    print $email->subject() . "\r\n" . "\r\n";
}