Sort Email by Date

Read a POP3 mailbox and sort by Date. The POP3 protocol does not provide the ability to download emails within a date range. However, once emails are downloaded, they may be sorted by date using the Chilkat email bundle object.

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'  The mailman object is used for receiving (POP3)
'  and sending (SMTP) email.
Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan()

'  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
Dim success As Boolean
success = mailman.UnlockComponent("30-day trial")
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox("Component unlock failed")
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Set the POP3 server's hostname
mailman.MailHost = "mail.chilkatsoft.com"

'  Set the POP3 login/password.
mailman.PopUsername = "matt@chilkatsoft.com"
mailman.PopPassword = "****"

Dim bundle As Chilkat.EmailBundle

'  Copy the all email from the user's POP3 mailbox
'  into a bundle object.  The email remains on the server.
'  You may copy full emails, or headers-only. Call CopyMail
'  to copy full emails.  Call GetAllHeaders to copy email headers.
'  bundle = mailman.CopyMail();
Dim numBodyLines As Long
numBodyLines = 1
bundle = mailman.GetAllHeaders(numBodyLines)

If (bundle Is Nothing ) Then
    MsgBox(mailman.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Sort the email in the bundle by date.
Dim ascending As Boolean
ascending = true
bundle.SortByDate(ascending)

Dim i As Long
Dim email As Chilkat.Email
For i = 0 To bundle.MessageCount - 1
    email = bundle.GetEmail(i)
    TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & email.GetHeaderField("Date") & vbCrLf

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