Visual FoxPro

Load Emails from a .mbx Mailbox File

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.LoadMbxFile method, which loads emails from a .mbx mailbox file and stores them in an EmailBundle. If a filter has been configured, only the matching emails are returned. This example loads a local mailbox file and iterates the resulting bundle.

Background: An .mbx file is a single-file mailbox format that stores many messages concatenated together — historically produced by Outlook Express and similar clients. LoadMbxFile parses that archive into individual Email objects, which is useful for importing, migrating, or analyzing old mail without any server connection. No POP3 or SMTP session is involved — this reads purely from disk.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMailman
LOCAL loBundle
LOCAL n
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL i

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the MailMan.LoadMbxFile method, which loads emails from a .mbx mailbox file
*  and stores them in an EmailBundle.  If a filter has been configured, only the matching
*  emails are returned.

loMailman = CreateObject('Chilkat.MailMan')

*  Load emails from a local .mbx mailbox file (no server connection is made).
loBundle = CreateObject('Chilkat.EmailBundle')

lnSuccess = loMailman.LoadMbxFile("qa_data/mbx/inbox.mbx",loBundle)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loBundle
    CANCEL
ENDIF

n = loBundle.MessageCount
? "Loaded " + STR(n) + " emails from the .mbx file."

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

FOR i = 0 TO n - 1
    lnSuccess = loBundle.EmailAt(i,loEmail)
    ? loEmail.Subject
NEXT

*  Note: The path "qa_data/mbx/inbox.mbx" is a relative local filesystem path,
*  relative to the current working directory of the running application.

RELEASE loMailman
RELEASE loBundle
RELEASE loEmail