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Visual Basic 6.0 Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Transition from Imap.CheckForNewEmail to Imap.QueryMbx

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated CheckForNewEmail method calls with QueryMbx.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim imap As New ChilkatImap

'  ...
'  ...

'  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  The CheckForNewEmail method is deprecated:

Dim msgSetObj As MessageSet
Set msgSetObj = imap.CheckForNewEmail()
If (imap.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  ...
'  ...

'  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  Do the equivalent using QueryMbx.
'  Your application creates a new, empty MessageSet object which is passed 
'  in the last argument and filled upon success.

Dim criteria As String
criteria = "new-email"
Dim bUid As Long
bUid = 1

Dim msgSet As New MessageSet
success = imap.QueryMbx(criteria,bUid,msgSet)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If