Lua

Fetch an IMAP Message as MIME Text

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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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- 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.

local imap = chilkat.Imap.new()

imap.ssl = true
imap.port = 993

local success = imap:connect("imap.example.com")
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

success = imap:login("user@example.com", "myPassword")
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

success = imap:select_mailbox("Inbox")
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Download message sequence number 1 and return its raw MIME.  bUid = false.
local mime = imap:fetch_single_as_mime(1, false)
if not imap.last_method_success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end

print(mime)

success = imap:disconnect()
if not success then
    print(imap.last_error_text)
    return
end