Sorting Email

How to sort an email bundle.

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

' Pass any of the above strings here to test a search:
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

' Sort the email bundle by date, recipient, sender, or subject:
Dim ascending As Long
ascending = True
bundle.SortByDate ascending

' To sort by recipient, sender, or subject, call
' SortBySender, SortByRecipient, or SortBySubject.

' Display the Subject and From of each email.
Dim i As Long
For i = 0 To bundle.MessageCount - 1
    Dim email As ChilkatEmail2
    Set email = bundle.GetEmail(i)

    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & email.GetHeaderField("Date") & vbCrLf
    Text1.Refresh
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & email.Subject & vbCrLf
    Text1.Refresh
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & email.From & vbCrLf
    Text1.Refresh
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & "--" & vbCrLf
    Text1.Refresh

Next

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect