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.)

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

'  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