Read IMAP Email Headers

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Call FetchHeaders to download only the email headers.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True)

set imap = CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

'  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
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Connect to an IMAP server.
success = imap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Login
success = imap.Login("****","****")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
fetchUids = 1
'  Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
' messageSet is a Chilkat.MessageSet
Set messageSet = imap.Search("ALL",fetchUids)
If (messageSet Is Nothing ) Then
    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  When downloading headers, each email object contains
'  (obviously) the headers, but the body will be missing.
'  Also, attachments will not be included.  However, it is
'  possible to get information about the attachments
'  as well as the complete size of the email.

' bundle is a Chilkat.EmailBundle2
Set bundle = imap.FetchHeaders(messageSet)
If (bundle Is Nothing ) Then

    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Loop over the email objects and display information
'  about each:

For i = 0 To bundle.MessageCount - 1

    ' email is a Chilkat.Email2
    Set email = bundle.GetEmail(i)

    '  Display the From and Subject
    outFile.WriteLine(email.From)
    outFile.WriteLine(email.Subject)

    '  Display the recipients:

    For j = 0 To email.NumTo - 1
        name = email.GetToName(j)
        addr = email.GetToAddr(j)
        outFile.WriteLine(name & ", " & addr)
    Next
    For j = 0 To email.NumCC - 1
        name = email.GetCcName(j)
        addr = email.GetCcAddr(j)
        outFile.WriteLine(name & ", " & addr)
    Next

    '  Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
    outFile.WriteLine(email.Size)

    '  When a full email is downloaded, we would use the
    '  email.NumAttachments property in conjunction with the
    '  email.GetMailAttach* methods.
    '  However, when an email object contains only the header,
    '  we need to access the attachment info differently:
    numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)
    For j = 0 To numAttach - 1
        outFile.WriteLine(imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j))
        attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j)
        outFile.WriteLine("    size = " & attachSize _
             & " bytes")
    Next

    outFile.WriteLine("--")

Next

'  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect 


outFile.Close