Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

Download Chilkat IMAP ActiveX

Dim imap As New ChilkatImap

Dim success As Long

' Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
success = imap.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Connect to an IMAP server.
success = imap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Login
success = imap.Login("admin@chilkatsoft.com","*myPassword5*")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim messageSet As MessageSet
' We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
Dim fetchUids As Long
fetchUids = 1

' Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
Set messageSet = imap.Search("ALL",fetchUids)
If (messageSet Is Nothing ) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:
Dim bundle As ChilkatEmailBundle2
Set bundle = imap.FetchHeaders(messageSet)
If (bundle Is Nothing ) Then

    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
' to a sub-directory.
Dim i As Long
For i = 0 To bundle.MessageCount - 1
    Dim email As ChilkatEmail2
    Set 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.)
    Dim numAttach As Long
    numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)

    If (numAttach > 0) Then
        ' 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.
        Dim uidStr As String
        uidStr = email.GetHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid")
        Dim uid As Long
        uid = CLng(uidStr)

        Dim fullEmail As ChilkatEmail2
        Set fullEmail = imap.FetchSingle(uid,1)
        If (Not (fullEmail Is Nothing )) Then
            fullEmail.SaveAllAttachments "attachmentsDir"

        End If

        Dim j As Long
        For j = 0 To numAttach - 1
            Dim filename As String
            filename = imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j)
            Text1.Text = Text1.Text & filename & vbCrLf
            Text1.Refresh
        Next

    End If

Next

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect