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Demonstrates IMAP Session Logging

Demonstrates how to enable IMAP session logging and examine the session log.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

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

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

'  Turn on session logging:
imap.KeepSessionLog = True

'  Connect to GMail
'  Use TLS
imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.gmail.com")
If success <> True Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Login
'  Your login is typically your GMail email address.
success = imap.Login("username@gmail.com", "myPassword")
If success <> True Then
    Log(imap.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


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


'  Show the session log.
Log(imap.SessionLog)

'  The session log will look like this:

'  ----INFO----
'  Connecting to IMAP server at imap.gmail.com:993
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  * OK Gimap ready for requests from ...
'  ----IMAP REQUEST----
'  aaab LOGIN "chilkat.support@gmail.com"
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS LITERAL- SPECIAL-USE APPENDLIMIT=35651584
'  aaab OK chilkat.support@gmail.com authenticated (Success)
'  ----IMAP REQUEST----
'  aaac SELECT "Inbox"
'  ----IMAP RESPONSE----
'  * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen $Forwarded $MDNSent $NotPhishing $Phishing $label1 $label2 $label3 $label4 $label5 Junk NonJunk)
'  * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen $Forwarded $MDNSent $NotPhishing $Phishing $label1 $label2 $label3 $label4 $label5 Junk NonJunk \*)] Flags permitted.
'  * OK [UIDVALIDITY 3] UIDs valid.
'  * 29 EXISTS
'  * 0 RECENT
'  * OK [UIDNEXT 6286] Predicted next UID.
'  * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 813897]
'  aaac OK [READ-WRITE] Inbox selected. (Success)

'  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
success = imap.Disconnect