IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Download Chilkat Email ActiveX

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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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

'  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.

Dim bUid As Long
bUid = 0
Dim mimeStr As String
Dim i As Long
Dim n As Long
n = imap.NumMessages
For i = 1 To n

    '  Download the email by sequence number.
    mimeStr = imap.FetchSingleAsMime(i,bUid)

    '  ... your application may process each MIME string...
Next

'  An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
'  email object, like this:
Dim email As ChilkatEmail2
For i = 1 To n

    '  Download the email by sequence number.
    Set email = imap.FetchSingle(i,bUid)

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

Next

'  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect