Sorting Email

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How to sort an email bundle.

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("admin@chilkatsoft.com","*myPassword5*")
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

' 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
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

Set bundle = imap.FetchHeaders(messageSet)
If (bundle Is Nothing ) Then

    MsgBox imap.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Sort the email bundle by date, recipient, sender, or subject:
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.

For i = 0 To bundle.MessageCount - 1

    Set email = bundle.GetEmail(i)

    outFile.WriteLine(email.GetHeaderField("Date"))
    outFile.WriteLine(email.Subject)
    outFile.WriteLine(email.From)
    outFile.WriteLine("--")

Next

' Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect 


outFile.Close