(PowerBuilder) Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Imap
integer li_FetchUids
oleobject loo_MessageSet
oleobject loo_Bundle
integer li_HeadersOnly
oleobject loo_FullEmail
oleobject loo_EmailHeader
integer i
integer li_NumAttach
string ls_UidStr
integer li_Uid
integer j
string ls_Filename

li_Success = 0

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

loo_Imap = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Imap.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Imap")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Imap
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

// Connect to an IMAP server.
// Use TLS
loo_Imap.Ssl = 1
loo_Imap.Port = 993
li_Success = loo_Imap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.com")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    return
end if

// Login
li_Success = loo_Imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    return
end if

// Select an IMAP mailbox
li_Success = loo_Imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    return
end if

// We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
li_FetchUids = 1

// Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
loo_MessageSet = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_MessageSet.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.MessageSet")

li_Success = loo_Imap.QueryMbx("ALL",li_FetchUids,loo_MessageSet)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    destroy loo_MessageSet
    return
end if

// Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:
loo_Bundle = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Bundle.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.EmailBundle")

li_HeadersOnly = 1
li_Success = loo_Imap.FetchMsgSet(li_HeadersOnly,loo_MessageSet,loo_Bundle)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Imap
    destroy loo_MessageSet
    destroy loo_Bundle
    return
end if

// Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
// to a sub-directory.
loo_FullEmail = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_FullEmail.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")

loo_EmailHeader = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_EmailHeader.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Email")

i = 0
do while i < loo_Bundle.MessageCount
    // The bundle contains email headers..
    loo_Bundle.EmailAt(i,loo_EmailHeader)

    // Does this email have attachments?
    // Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    // are not actually in the email object because
    // we only downloaded headers.
    // (Had we downloaded the full emails by
    // calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look
    // at the email object's NumAttachments property.)
    li_NumAttach = loo_Imap.GetMailNumAttach(loo_EmailHeader)

    if li_NumAttach > 0 then
        // Download the entire email and save the
        // attachments. (Remember, we 
        // need to download the entire email because
        // only the headers were previously downloaded.
        // If the entire emails were downloaded by
        // calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders,
        // this would not be necessary.

        // The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        // headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        // to get the UID from the email object.
        ls_UidStr = loo_EmailHeader.GetHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid")
        li_Uid = Integer(ls_UidStr)

        li_Success = loo_Imap.FetchEmail(0,li_Uid,1,loo_FullEmail)
        if li_Success = 0 then
            Write-Debug loo_Imap.LastErrorText
            destroy loo_Imap
            destroy loo_MessageSet
            destroy loo_Bundle
            destroy loo_FullEmail
            destroy loo_EmailHeader
            return
        end if

        li_Success = loo_FullEmail.SaveAllAttachments("attachmentsDir")

        for j = 0 to li_NumAttach - 1
            ls_Filename = loo_Imap.GetMailAttachFilename(loo_EmailHeader,j)
            Write-Debug ls_Filename
        next

    end if

    i = i + 1
loop

// Disconnect from the IMAP server.
li_Success = loo_Imap.Disconnect()


destroy loo_Imap
destroy loo_MessageSet
destroy loo_Bundle
destroy loo_FullEmail
destroy loo_EmailHeader