Determine the Number of Unseen Email Messages

Demonstrates how to determine how many unseen messages exist in an email account on an IMAP server.

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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("***","***")
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


'  After selecting the mailbox. the total number of emails
'  is immediately available:
Dim totalNum As Long
totalNum = imap.NumMessages
TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & totalNum & vbCrLf
TextBox1.Refresh()

'  To determine the number of unseen messages, a call
'  to Search is required, which returns the set of UIDs
'  of all unseen messages.
Dim messageSet As Chilkat.MessageSet
'  We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
Dim fetchUids As Boolean
fetchUids = true


messageSet = imap.Search("UNSEEN",fetchUids)
If (messageSet Is Nothing ) Then
    MsgBox(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim numUnseen As Long
numUnseen = messageSet.Count
TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & numUnseen & vbCrLf
TextBox1.Refresh()

TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & "UIDs ----" & vbCrLf
TextBox1.Refresh()

'  Display the UIDs
Dim i As Long
Dim msgId As Long
For i = 0 To messageSet.Count - 1
    msgId = messageSet.GetId(i)
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & msgId & vbCrLf
    TextBox1.Refresh()
Next

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