IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.)

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MS Windows Visual C/C++ Libraries

Linux/CentOS C/C++ Libraries

MAC OS X C/C++ Libraries

Solaris C/C++ Libraries

C++ Builder Libraries

#include <CkImap.h>
#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkImap imap;

    bool success;

    //  Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
    success = imap.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
    if (success != true) {
        printf("%s\n",imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  Connect to an IMAP server.
    success = imap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com");
    if (success != true) {
        printf("%s\n",imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  Login
    success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success != true) {
        printf("%s\n",imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
    if (success != true) {
        printf("%s\n",imap.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
    //  will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
    //  You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
    //  fetch each message by sequence number.

    bool bUid;
    bUid = false;
    const char * mimeStr;
    long i;
    long n;
    n = imap.get_NumMessages();
    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

        //  Download the email by sequence number.
        mimeStr = imap.fetchSingleAsMime(i,bUid);

        //  ... your application may process each MIME string...
    }

    //  An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
    //  email object, like this:
    CkEmail *email = 0;
    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

        //  Download the email by sequence number.
        email = imap.FetchSingle(i,bUid);

        //  ... your application may process the email object...

        delete email;
    }

    //  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    imap.Disconnect();


    }