React Native Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

IMAP Copy Email from Selected Folder to Another Folder

Copies an email from the selected mailbox (folder) to another mailbox (folder). React Native

import { Imap, MessageSet } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  // This example copies an email from one mailbox to another.
  const imap = new Imap();

  // Turn on session logging for debugging.
  imap.keepSessionLog = true;

  // Connect using TLS.
  imap.ssl = true;
  imap.port = 993;
  try {
    await imap.connectAsync('imap.example.com');
  } catch {
    console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Authenticate
  try {
    await imap.loginAsync('email_account_login', 'email_account_password');
  } catch {
    console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Select an IMAP mailbox
  try {
    await imap.selectMailboxAsync('Inbox');
  } catch {
    console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Search for messages having "Test email" in the subject.
  const fetchUids = true;
  const criteria = 'SUBJECT "Test email"';
  const messageSet = new MessageSet();
  try {
    await imap.queryMbxAsync(criteria, fetchUids, messageSet);
  } catch {
    console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Assuming we have 1 or more messages in the set, copy the 1st one to the folder "Inbox.testFolder"
  if (messageSet.count > 0) {
    try {
      await imap.copyAsync(messageSet.getId(0), messageSet.hasUids, 'Inbox/testFolder');
    } catch {
      console.log(imap.lastErrorText);
    }
  }

  console.log(imap.sessionLog);

  console.log('OK');

  // Sample sessiong log:

  // ----INFO----
  // Connecting to IMAP server at outlook.office365.com:993
  // ----IMAP RESPONSE----
  // * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready. [QgBMADAAUABSADAAMQAwADIAQwBBADAAMAA3ADAALgBwAHIAbwBkAC4AZQB4AGMAaABhAG4AZwBlAGwAYQBiAHMALgBjAG8AbQA=]
  // ----IMAP REQUEST----
  // aaab LOGIN "chilkat@live.com"
  // ----IMAP RESPONSE----
  // aaab OK LOGIN completed.
  // ----IMAP REQUEST----
  // aaac SELECT "Inbox"
  // ----IMAP RESPONSE----
  // * 28 EXISTS
  // * 0 RECENT
  // * FLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)
  // * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)] Permanent flags
  // * OK [UNSEEN 23] Is the first unseen message
  // * OK [UIDVALIDITY 14] UIDVALIDITY value
  // * OK [UIDNEXT 6416] The next unique identifier value
  // aaac OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed.
  // ----IMAP REQUEST----
  // aaad UID SEARCH SUBJECT "Test email"
  // ----IMAP RESPONSE----
  // * SEARCH 6414
  // aaad OK SEARCH completed.
  // ----IMAP REQUEST----
  // aaae UID COPY 6414 "Inbox/testFolder"
  // ----IMAP RESPONSE----
  // aaae OK [COPYUID 180 6414 1] COPY completed.
  // 
  // OK
}