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Append a MIME Message to an IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.AppendMime method, which uploads a complete RFC 822/MIME message to a mailbox. The first argument is the destination mailbox name and the second is the MIME text. This example obtains the MIME from an Email object and uploads it to Drafts.

Background: Use AppendMime when you already hold a message's raw source — a .eml file, a message you assembled, or one you received. Chilkat sends the text exactly as supplied, without normalizing line endings or re-encoding headers, so every header and MIME boundary is preserved verbatim. The supplied text must be plain text (no raw non-text binary bytes).

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

#  Demonstrates the Imap.AppendMime method, which uploads a complete MIME message to a mailbox.
#  The 1st argument is the destination mailbox name and the 2nd is the MIME text.

imap = chilkat.CkImap()

imap.put_Ssl(True)
imap.put_Port(993)

success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if (success == False):
    print(imap.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

success = imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword")
if (success == False):
    print(imap.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

#  Build the email to be uploaded.
email = chilkat.CkEmail()
email.put_Subject("Meeting agenda")
email.put_From("Alice <alice@example.com>")
success = email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
email.put_Body("Let's meet at 10am to review the agenda.")

#  Obtain the MIME text to upload.  Here it is generated from the Email, but it could equally
#  be read from a .eml file.
mimeText = email.getMime()
if (email.get_LastMethodSuccess() == False):
    print(email.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

#  Append (upload) the MIME to the "Drafts" mailbox.
success = imap.AppendMime("Drafts",mimeText)
if (success == False):
    print(imap.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("Appended UID: " + str(imap.get_AppendUid()))

success = imap.Disconnect()
if (success == False):
    print(imap.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()