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.)

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<?php

$imap = new COM("Chilkat.Imap");

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

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

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

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

//  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.

$bUid = false;

$n = $imap->NumMessages;
for ($i = 1; $i <= $n; $i++) {

    //  Download the email by sequence number.
    $mimeStr = $imap->fetchSingleAsMime($i,$bUid);

    //  ... your application may process each MIME string...
}

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

for ($i = 1; $i <= $n; $i++) {

    //  Download the email by sequence number.
    // email is a Chilkat.Email2
    $email = $imap->FetchSingle($i,$bUid);

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

}

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


?>