Perl

Async Upload (Append) Email to an IMAP Mailbox

Use the AppendMailAsync method call to append an email to an IMAP mailbox. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

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

# Connect to an IMAP server.
# Use TLS
$imap->put_Ssl(1);
$imap->put_Port(993);
$success = $imap->Connect("MY-IMAP-DOMAIN");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Login
$success = $imap->Login("MY-IMAP-LOGIN","MY-IMAP-PASSWORD");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Create a simple email with 2 recipients.
$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_From('support@chilkatsoft.com');
$email->AddTo("Chilkat Sales",'sales@chilkatsoft.com');
$email->AddTo("Chilkat GMail",'chilkat.support@gmail.com');
$email->put_Body("This is a test email.");
$email->put_Subject("This is a test email.");

# Imagine we've sent this email via SMTP, and now we want to 
# save the email to our "Sent" mailbox.  On GMail, the mailbox name
# for sent email is "[Gmail]/Sent Mail".

# Call the async version of the AppendMail method to return a task object.
# task is a Task
$task = $imap->AppendMailAsync("[Gmail]/Sent Mail",$email);
if ($imap->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Schedule the task for running on the thread pool.  This changes the task's state
# from Inert to Live.  The task is now running...
$success = $task->Run();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $task->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";

    exit;
}

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The following is a general note that applies to all programming languages:
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Your application can keep a reference to the task object and periodically check back later to see if it's finished.
# If your programming language is one that supports callbacks, then the TaskCompleted callback can
# be setup to be called when the task completes.  (See the "Async" category on example-code.com for more information.)
# 
# NOTE: This is very important:  A TaskCompleted callback runs in the background thread.  
# (All callbacks from an async task, such as AbortCheck, PercentDone, ProgressInfo, etc. are in the background thread.) 
# An application that uses TaskCompleted must be very careful.  
# For example, user interface elements (such as labels, text boxes, etc.) may not be directly
# accessible from a background thread, and could crash the application if directly accessed.  Also, attempting to debug
# code running in a background thread from an IDE, especially an older IDE (such as VB6) is likely to crash the IDE.