Download MIME Source of Emails in IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates how to download the MIME source for emails on an IMAP server. There are several Chilkat IMAP methods for downloading email into a MIME string: FetchSingleAsMime, FetchSequenceAsMime, and FetchBundleAsMime. This example demonstrates FetchSequenceAsMime.

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import sys
import chilkat

imap = chilkat.CkImap()

#  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()
    sys.exit()

#  Connect to an IMAP server.
success = imap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Login
success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  The NumMessages property contains the number of messages in the selected mailbox.
numToFetch = imap.get_NumMessages()
#  Download all the email in the Inbox.

# sa is a CkStringArray
sa = imap.FetchSequenceAsMime(1,numToFetch)
if (sa == None ):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Loop over the MIME strings contained within sa:

for i in range(0,sa.get_Count()):

    strMime = sa.getString(i)

    #  Now you have the MIME source of this email...

#  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect()