Java Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

IMAP Download All Email One at a Time

Demonstrates how to download every email in an IMAP mailbox one at a time as a MIME string or as an email object. (The MIME contains the full contents of the email including all attachments.) Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Imap;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Imap imap = new Imap();

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

        // Connect to an IMAP server.
        // Use TLS
        imap.setSsl(true);
        imap.setPort(993);
        try {
            imap.connect("imap.example.com");

            // Login
            imap.login("myLogin", "myPassword");

            // Select an IMAP mailbox
            imap.selectMailbox("Inbox");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Once the mailbox is selected, the NumMessages property
        // will contain the number of messages in the mailbox.
        // You may loop from 1 to NumMessages to
        // fetch each message by sequence number.

        boolean bUid = false;
        String mimeStr = "";
        int n = imap.getNumMessages();
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
            // Download the email by sequence number.
            mimeStr = imap.fetchSingleAsMime(i, bUid);

            // ... your application may process each MIME string...
        }

        // An alternative is to download each email in the form of an
        // email object, like this:
        Email email = new Email();
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
            // Download the email by sequence number.
            imap.fetchEmail(false, i, bUid, email);

            // ... your application may process the email object...
        }

        // Disconnect from the IMAP server.
        imap.disconnect();
    }
}