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Get the Total Size of an IMAP Message

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.GetMailSize method, which returns the complete server-reported size of a message in bytes, including attachment data. The only argument is the Email. This example fetches only the headers and prints the full message size.

Background: The server reports each message's total size, so this value is available even when only the headers were downloaded. That lets a client show a size column in a message list, sort by size, or warn the user before downloading an unusually large message — all without fetching the full body first.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Demonstrates the Imap.GetMailSize method, which returns the complete server-reported size
'  of a message in bytes, including attachments.  The only argument is the Email.

Dim imap As ChilkatImap
imap.Initialize("imap")

imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993

success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

success = imap.Login("user@example.com", "myPassword")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Fetch only the message headers.  Attachment bodies are NOT downloaded, but the ckx-imap-*
'  metadata describing the attachments is present, so the attachment info methods still work.
Dim headersOnly As Boolean = True
Dim useUid As Boolean = False
Dim seqNum As Int = 1
Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize
success = imap.FetchEmail(headersOnly, seqNum, useUid, email)
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim sizeBytes As Int = imap.GetMailSize(email)
Log("Total message size: " & sizeBytes & " bytes")

success = imap.Disconnect
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If