Lianja Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Move Selected Emails to another Mailbox Folder

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Downloads emails one by one in a selected mailbox, decides which emails are to be moved, and then moves the set of messages to another mailbox folder. Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

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

loImap = createobject("CkImap")

//  Connect to an IMAP server.
//  Use TLS
loImap.Ssl = .T.
loImap.Port = 993
llSuccess = loImap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

//  Login
llSuccess = loImap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

//  Select an IMAP mailbox
llSuccess = loImap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loImap.LastErrorText
    release loImap
    return
endif

//  Normally, when an email is downloaded, its "Seen" flag is automatically set.
//  We don't want our program to be interfering with the "Seen" flags.
//  To do this, set the PeekMode to .T..
loImap.PeekMode = .T.

//  After selecting the mailbox, the NumMessages property
//  will contain the number of emails in the mailbox.
//  When sequence numbers (not UIDs) are used to reference emails,
//  they range from 1 to N, where N is the number of messages in the mailbox.
//  This example will download the headers by sequence numbers.
lnNumEmails = loImap.NumMessages

loMset = createobject("CkMessageSet")

//  Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
loMset.HasUids = .F.

//  Fetch each email and decide for each if it is to be moved
//  to a particular other mailbox.  If so, we'll add the sequence number to
//  the mset, and then move all emails in the mset to the other mailbox.
loEmail = createobject("CkEmail")
i = 0
do while i < lnNumEmails
    //  Fetch the email by sequence number.
    llSuccess = loImap.FetchEmail(.F.,i + 1,.F.,loEmail)
    if (llSuccess = .F.) then
        ? loImap.LastErrorText
        release loImap
        release loMset
        release loEmail
        return
    endif

    //  If it is decided to move the email, add the sequence number to mset, like this:
    loMset.InsertId(i + 1)

enddo

//  If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
if (loMset.Count > 0) then
    lcDestFolder = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder"
    //  Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
    llSuccess = loImap.MoveMessages(loMset,lcDestFolder)
    if (llSuccess = .F.) then
        ? loImap.LastErrorText
        release loImap
        release loMset
        release loEmail
        return
    endif

endif

//  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
llSuccess = loImap.Disconnect()


release loImap
release loMset
release loEmail