Perl
Perl
Get the IMAP UID of an Email
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetImapUid method. When email headers are downloaded from an IMAP server using Chilkat IMAP, a ckx-imap-uid header field is added to the email, and GetImapUid returns its value. This example sets that header directly to illustrate how the method reads it.
Background: IMAP assigns each message in a mailbox a UID — a stable numeric identifier used to fetch, flag, move, or delete that specific message. Chilkat records it in the
ckx-imap-uid header so it stays attached to the downloaded Email object. This is the IMAP counterpart to POP3's UIDL (see the Uidl property), letting an application correlate a local message back to its position on the server.Chilkat Perl Downloads
use chilkat();
# Demonstrates the GetImapUid method. When an email is downloaded from an IMAP server
# (using Chilkat IMAP), a ckx-imap-uid header field is added, and GetImapUid returns its
# value. Here we set the header directly to show how the method reads it.
$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("GetImapUid example");
# Normally the IMAP download sets this header; we set it here for demonstration.
$email->AddHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid","482");
print "IMAP UID = " . $email->GetImapUid() . "\r\n";