Sorting Email

How to sort an email bundle.

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Dim imap As New Chilkat.Imap()

Dim success As Boolean

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


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


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


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



Dim messageSet As Chilkat.MessageSet
' We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
Dim fetchUids As Boolean
fetchUids = true


' Pass any of the above strings here to test a search:
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 Chilkat.EmailBundle
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 Boolean
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 Chilkat.Email
    email = bundle.GetEmail(i)

    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.GetHeaderField("Date") & vbCrLf
    TextBox1.Refresh()
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.Subject & vbCrLf
    TextBox1.Refresh()
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.From & vbCrLf
    TextBox1.Refresh()
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & "--" & vbCrLf
    TextBox1.Refresh()


Next

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect()