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Retrieve UIDL's from POP3 Server

Retrieve a list of UIDLs from a POP3 server. UIDLs are unique identifiers, 1 to 70 characters long, composed of characters ranging from 0x21 to 0x7E. These identifiers uniquely distinguish messages within a mailbox and remain consistent across sessions.

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

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

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @mailman, 'MailHost', 'pop.example.com'

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @mailman, 'PopUsername', 'myLogin'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @mailman, 'PopPassword', 'myPassword'

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @mailman, 'MailPort', 995
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @mailman, 'PopSsl', 1

    DECLARE @stUidls int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringTable', @stUidls OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mailman, 'FetchUidls', @success OUT, @stUidls
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @mailman, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @mailman
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @stUidls
        RETURN
      END

    -- Download each email by UIDL.
    DECLARE @email int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Email', @email OUT

    DECLARE @count int
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @stUidls, 'Count', @count OUT
    DECLARE @i int
    SELECT @i = 0
    WHILE @i < @count
      BEGIN
        -- Download the full email.
        DECLARE @uidl nvarchar(4000)
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @stUidls, 'StringAt', @uidl OUT, @i
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @mailman, 'FetchByUidl', @success OUT, @uidl, 0, 0, @email
        IF @success = 0
          BEGIN
            EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @mailman, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
            PRINT @sTmp0
            EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @mailman
            EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @stUidls
            EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email
            RETURN
          END


        PRINT @i

        PRINT 'UIDL: ' + @uidl

        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'From', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT 'From: ' + @sTmp0

        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @email, 'Subject', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT 'Subject: ' + @sTmp0

        SELECT @i = @i + 1
      END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @mailman, 'Pop3EndSession', @success OUT

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @mailman
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @stUidls
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @email


END
GO