Subscribe to an IMAP Mailbox

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.Subscribe method, which subscribes the authenticated IMAP account to a mailbox. Subscription controls which mailboxes are returned by subscribed-mailbox listings. This example subscribes to a mailbox.

Background: An account can have many mailboxes, but a user often cares about only some of them. IMAP's subscription list is that curated set: mail clients typically show subscribed folders by default and hide the rest. Subscribing does not create or change a mailbox — it only adds it to the "show me this one" list (retrieved with a subscribed-only listing). Unsubscribe removes it from that list.

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bool success = false;

//  Demonstrates the Imap.Subscribe method, which subscribes the authenticated IMAP account to
//  a mailbox.  Subscription controls which mailboxes are returned by subscribed-mailbox
//  listings.

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;
}

//  Subscribe to a mailbox.
success = imap.Subscribe("Archive2026");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Subscribed to the mailbox.");

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