Node.js

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. Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

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

    var imap = new chilkat.Imap();

    //  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;
    }

    //  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 true.
    imap.PeekMode = true;

    //  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.
    var numEmails = imap.NumMessages;

    var mset = new chilkat.MessageSet();

    //  Indicate that mset contains sequence numbers, not UIDs.
    mset.HasUids = false;

    //  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.
    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    var i = 0;
    while (i < numEmails) {
        //  Fetch the email by sequence number.
        success = imap.FetchEmail(false,i+1,false,email);
        if (success == false) {
            console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
            return;
        }

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

    }

    //  If there are emails in mset to be moved, then do it..
    if (mset.Count > 0) {
        var destFolder = "Inbox/SomeOtherFolder";
        //  Assuming your IMAP server supports the feature that allows for messages to be moved to another folder...
        success = imap.MoveMessages(mset,destFolder);
        if (success == false) {
            console.log(imap.LastErrorText);
            return;
        }

    }

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

}

chilkatExample();