Ruby 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). Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  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.
imap = Chilkat::CkImap.new()

#  Turn on session logging for debugging.
imap.put_KeepSessionLog(true)

#  Connect using TLS.
imap.put_Ssl(true)
imap.put_Port(993)
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Authenticate
success = imap.Login("email_account_login","email_account_password")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Search for messages having "Test email" in the subject.
fetchUids = true
criteria = "SUBJECT \"Test email\""
messageSet = Chilkat::CkMessageSet.new()
success = imap.QueryMbx(criteria,fetchUids,messageSet)
if (success == false)
    print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Assuming we have 1 or more messages in the set, copy the 1st one to the folder "Inbox.testFolder"
if (messageSet.get_Count() > 0)
    success = imap.Copy(messageSet.GetId(0),messageSet.get_HasUids(),"Inbox/testFolder")
    if (success != true)
        print imap.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    end

end

print imap.sessionLog() + "\n";

print "OK" + "\n";

#  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