Perl

Subscribe to an IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.Subscribe method, which subscribes the authenticated IMAP account to a mailbox. Subscription controls which mailboxes are returned by subscribed-mailbox listings. This example subscribes to a mailbox.

Background: An account can have many mailboxes, but a user often cares about only some of them. IMAP's subscription list is that curated set: mail clients typically show subscribed folders by default and hide the rest. Subscribing does not create or change a mailbox — it only adds it to the "show me this one" list (retrieved with a subscribed-only listing). Unsubscribe removes it from that list.

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Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Imap.Subscribe method, which subscribes the authenticated IMAP account to
#  a mailbox.  Subscription controls which mailboxes are returned by subscribed-mailbox
#  listings.

$imap = chilkat::CkImap->new();

$imap->put_Ssl(1);
$imap->put_Port(993);

$success = $imap->Connect("imap.example.com");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->Login('user@example.com',"myPassword");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Subscribe to a mailbox.
$success = $imap->Subscribe("Archive2026");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Subscribed to the mailbox." . "\r\n";

$success = $imap->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}