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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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()

#  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.get_NumMessages()
for i in range(1,(n)-1):

    #  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 in range(1,(n)-1):

    #  Download the email by sequence number.
    # email is a CkEmail
    email = imap.FetchSingle(i,bUid)

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

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