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.

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("myLogin","myPassword")
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

'  The NumMessages property contains the number of messages in the selected mailbox.
Dim numToFetch As Long
numToFetch = imap.NumMessages
'  Download all the email in the Inbox.
Dim sa As CkStringArray
Set sa = imap.FetchSequenceAsMime(1,numToFetch)
If (sa Is Nothing ) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Loop over the MIME strings contained within sa:
Dim i As Long
For i = 0 To sa.Count - 1
    Dim strMime As String
    strMime = sa.GetString(i)

    '  Now you have the MIME source of this email...
Next

'  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect