Fetch an IMAP Message as MIME Text

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.FetchSingleAsMime method, which downloads one message and returns its MIME source as a string. If the second argument (bUid) is true, the first argument is a UID; otherwise it is a sequence number. This example fetches message 1's raw MIME.

Background: Sometimes you want the message exactly as it exists on the server — the raw MIME — rather than a parsed Email object. That is what you save to a .eml file, feed to another parser, or archive verbatim. This method returns the MIME as text; for messages that may contain binary data, the BinData variant FetchSingleBd preserves the exact bytes.

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    success := false

    //  Demonstrates the Imap.FetchSingleAsMime method, which downloads one message and returns
    //  its MIME source as a string.  If the 2nd argument (bUid) is true, the 1st argument is a
    //  UID; otherwise it is a sequence number.

    imap := chilkat.NewImap()

    imap.SetSsl(true)
    imap.SetPort(993)

    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

    success = imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword")
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

    //  Download message sequence number 1 and return its raw MIME.  bUid = false.
    mime := imap.FetchSingleAsMime(1,false)
    if imap.LastMethodSuccess() == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }

    fmt.Println(*mime)

    success = imap.Disconnect()
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(imap.LastErrorText())
        imap.DisposeImap()
        return
    }


    imap.DisposeImap()