Get IMAP Mailbox Status

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.GetMailboxStatus method, which sends the IMAP STATUS command for a mailbox and returns the reported values as XML attributes — including messages (total count), recent, uidnext, uidvalidity, and unseen. This example gets the Inbox status.

Tip: XML parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat Tools.

Background: STATUS queries a mailbox's summary counts without selecting it — ideal for showing unread counts across many folders in a UI, or checking whether a folder has new mail before deciding to open it. Two values are especially useful for sync: uidvalidity (if it changes, previously stored UIDs are no longer valid) and uidnext (the UID the next new message will get, so anything at or above a remembered value is new).

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bool success = false;

//  Demonstrates the Imap.GetMailboxStatus method, which sends the IMAP STATUS command for a
//  mailbox and returns the reported values as XML attributes (such as messages, recent,
//  uidnext, uidvalidity, and unseen).

Chilkat.Imap imap = new Chilkat.Imap();

imap.Ssl = true;
imap.Port = 993;

success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

success = imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Get the status of a mailbox (without selecting it).
string statusXml = imap.GetMailboxStatus("Inbox");
if (imap.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine(statusXml);

//  XML parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
//  https://tools.chilkat.io/xmlParse

success = imap.Disconnect();
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}