Perl

Upload (Append) Email to an IMAP Mailbox and get the UID of the Appended Email

Upload / append an email to an IMAP mailbox and get the UID of the appended email. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $imap = Chilkat2::Imap->new;

# Connect to an IMAP server.
# Use TLS
$imap->Ssl(1);
$imap->Port(993);
my $success = $imap->Connect('imap.example.com');
if (!$success) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Login
$success = $imap->Login('myLogin', 'myPassword');
if (!$success) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Check the capabilities of the IMAP server.
my $cap = $imap->Capability();
print 'IMAP capabilities: ', $cap, "\n";

# If the capabilities string contains the substring "UIDPLUS", then
# the UID of the appended email will be available in the AppendUid property (see below).

# For example, the GMail IMAP server has these capabilities (at this current time)
# * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN
# X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT
# APPENDLIMIT=35882577 LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;

# Load the email from a .eml file.
$success = $email->LoadEml('myEmail.eml');
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->AppendMail('Inbox', $email);
if (!$success) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# If the IMAP server supports the UIDPLUS extension, then the
# imap.AppendUid will contain the UID of the appended email.
# Otherwise AppendUid will be 0.
print 'UID of appended email: ', $imap->AppendUid, "\n";

# If the IMAP server does NOT have UIDPLUS, then a program can
# first select the mailbox, get the value of the UidNext property,
# and then append.  The appended email SHOULD have a UID equal to
# the UidNext that was obtained just prior to appending (assuming no other
# program is simultaneously appending an email to the same mailbox).

# Note: It is not required to select a mailbox to append.  The select is only
# done for the purpose of obtaining the UIDNEXT value.
$success = $imap->SelectMailbox('Inbox');
if (!$success) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

my $uidNext = $imap->UidNext;

$success = $imap->AppendMail('Inbox', $email);
if (!$success) {
    print $imap->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'The UID of the appended email SHOULD be ', $uidNext, "\n";

print "Email uploaded to Inbox!\n";

# Disconnect from the IMAP server.
$success = $imap->Disconnect();