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IMAP Capability

Demonstrates how to send the CAPABILITY command to request a listing of capabilities that the IMAP server supports. A capability name which begins with "AUTH=" indicates that the server supports that particular authentication mechanism.

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    -- This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    -- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    DECLARE @imap int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Imap', @imap OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Use TLS
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @imap, 'Ssl', 1
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @imap, 'Port', 993
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'Connect', @success OUT, 'MY-IMAP-DOMAIN'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END

    -- Authenticate
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'Login', @success OUT, 'MY-IMAP-LOGIN', 'MY-IMAP-PASSWORD'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @imap, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap
        RETURN
      END

    -- Get the list of capabilities:
    DECLARE @caps nvarchar(4000)
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'Capability', @caps OUT

    PRINT 'Capabilities: ' + @caps

    -- Here is an example of the string returned:
    -- * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 
    -- UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT APPENDLIMIT=35882577
    -- LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS

    -- Chilkat v9.5.0.58 introduces the HasCapability method to
    -- check to see if a particular capability exists:
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'HasCapability', @iTmp0 OUT, 'QUOTA', @caps
    IF @iTmp0 = 1
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'IMAP server supports the QUOTA extension.'
      END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'HasCapability', @iTmp0 OUT, 'IDLE', @caps
    IF @iTmp0 = 1
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'IMAP server supports IDLE.'
      END

    -- Disconnect from the IMAP server.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @imap, 'Disconnect', @success OUT

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @imap


END
GO