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

$success = $false

#  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 = 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
}

#  Subscribe to a mailbox.
$success = $imap.Subscribe("Archive2026")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($imap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Subscribed to the mailbox.")

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