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Fetch an IMAP Message as MIME Text

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.FetchSingleAsMime method, which downloads one message and returns its MIME source as a string. If the second argument (bUid) is true, the first argument is a UID; otherwise it is a sequence number. This example fetches message 1's raw MIME.

Background: Sometimes you want the message exactly as it exists on the server — the raw MIME — rather than a parsed Email object. That is what you save to a .eml file, feed to another parser, or archive verbatim. This method returns the MIME as text; for messages that may contain binary data, the BinData variant FetchSingleBd preserves the exact bytes.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the Imap.FetchSingleAsMime method, which downloads one message and returns
#  its MIME source as a string.  If the 2nd argument (bUid) is $true, the 1st argument is a
#  UID; otherwise it is a sequence number.

$imap = New-Object Chilkat.Imap

$imap.Ssl = $true
$imap.Port = 993

$success = $imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$success = $imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$success = $imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Download message sequence number 1 and return its raw MIME.  bUid = $false.
$mime = $imap.FetchSingleAsMime(1,$false)
if ($imap.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$($mime)

$success = $imap.Disconnect()
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}