Node.js

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.) Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    var imap = new chilkat.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.Ssl = true;
    imap.Port = 993;
    success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  Login
    success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  Select an IMAP mailbox
    success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
        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.

    var bUid = false;
    var mimeStr;
    var i;
    var n = imap.NumMessages;
    for (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:
    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

        //  Download the email by sequence number.
        success = imap.FetchEmail(false,i,bUid,email);

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

    }

    //  Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    success = imap.Disconnect();

}

chilkatExample();