B4X Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

IMAP Copy Email from Selected Folder to Another Folder

Copies an email from the selected mailbox (folder) to another mailbox (folder). B4X

Dim success As Boolean = False

'  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

'  This example copies an email from one mailbox to another.
Dim imap As ChilkatImap
imap.Initialize("imap")

'  Turn on session logging for debugging.
imap.KeepSessionLog = True

'  Connect using TLS.
imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Authenticate
success = imap.Login("email_account_login", "email_account_password")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Search for messages having "Test email" in the subject.
Dim fetchUids As Boolean = True
Dim criteria As String = "SUBJECT " & Chr(34) & "Test email" & Chr(34)
Dim messageSet As ChilkatMessageSet
messageSet.Initialize
success = imap.QueryMbx(criteria, fetchUids, messageSet)
If success = False Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Assuming we have 1 or more messages in the set, copy the 1st one to the folder "Inbox.testFolder"
If messageSet.Count > 0 Then
    success = imap.Copy(messageSet.GetId(0), messageSet.HasUids, "Inbox/testFolder")
    If success <> True Then
        Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    End If

End If


Log(imap.SessionLog)

Log("OK")

'  Sample sessiong log:

'  ----INFO----
'  Connecting to IMAP server at outlook.office365.com:993
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready. [QgBMADAAUABSADAAMQAwADIAQwBBADAAMAA3ADAALgBwAHIAbwBkAC4AZQB4AGMAaABhAG4AZwBlAGwAYQBiAHMALgBjAG8AbQA=]
'  ----IMAP REQUEST----
'  aaab LOGIN "chilkat@live.com"
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  aaab OK LOGIN completed.
'  ----IMAP REQUEST----
'  aaac SELECT "Inbox"
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  * 28 EXISTS
'  * 0 RECENT
'  * FLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)
'  * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)] Permanent flags
'  * OK [UNSEEN 23] Is the first unseen message
'  * OK [UIDVALIDITY 14] UIDVALIDITY value
'  * OK [UIDNEXT 6416] The next unique identifier value
'  aaac OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed.
'  ----IMAP REQUEST----
'  aaad UID SEARCH SUBJECT "Test email"
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  * SEARCH 6414
'  aaad OK SEARCH completed.
'  ----IMAP REQUEST----
'  aaae UID COPY 6414 "Inbox/testFolder"
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  aaae OK [COPYUID 180 6414 1] COPY completed.
'  
'  OK