Rust

Get IMAP Mailbox Status

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.GetMailboxStatus method, which sends the IMAP STATUS command for a mailbox and returns the reported values as XML attributes — including messages (total count), recent, uidnext, uidvalidity, and unseen. This example gets the Inbox status.

Tip: XML parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat Tools.

Background: STATUS queries a mailbox's summary counts without selecting it — ideal for showing unread counts across many folders in a UI, or checking whether a folder has new mail before deciding to open it. Two values are especially useful for sync: uidvalidity (if it changes, previously stored UIDs are no longer valid) and uidnext (the UID the next new message will get, so anything at or above a remembered value is new).

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// Demonstrates the Imap.GetMailboxStatus method, which sends the IMAP STATUS command for a
// mailbox and returns the reported values as XML attributes (such as messages, recent,
// uidnext, uidvalidity, and unseen).

let imap = chilkat::Imap::new();

imap.set_ssl(true);
imap.set_port(993);

if imap.connect("imap.example.com").is_err() {
    println!("{}", imap.last_error_text());
    return;
}

if imap.login("user@example.com", "myPassword").is_err() {
    println!("{}", imap.last_error_text());
    return;
}

// Get the status of a mailbox (without selecting it).
let Ok(status_xml) = imap.get_mailbox_status("Inbox") else {
    println!("{}", imap.last_error_text());
    return;
};

println!("{}", status_xml);

// XML parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
// https://tools.chilkat.io/xmlParse

if imap.disconnect().is_err() {
    println!("{}", imap.last_error_text());
    return;
}