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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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function chilkatExample() {

    var 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.

    var imap = new chilkat.Imap();

    imap.Ssl = true;
    imap.Port = 993;

    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    success = imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  Download message sequence number 1 and return its raw MIME.  bUid = false.
    var mime = imap.FetchSingleAsMime(1,false);
    if (imap.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log(mime);

    success = imap.Disconnect();
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }


}

chilkatExample();