Visual Basic 6.0

Fetch an IMAP Message's MIME into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.FetchSingleBd method, which downloads one message's MIME bytes into a BinData object. If the second argument (bUid) is true, the first argument is a UID; otherwise it is a sequence number. This example downloads message 1's MIME into a BinData and prints the byte count.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to FetchSingleAsMime (which returns a string). A BinData holds raw bytes, so it preserves the message exactly — the right choice when you plan to write the MIME straight to a file, hash it, or hand it to an API expecting a byte buffer, with no charset conversion that could alter binary content.

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Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the Imap.FetchSingleBd method, which downloads one message's MIME bytes into a
'  BinData object.  If the 2nd argument (bUid) is 1, the 1st argument is a UID; otherwise
'  it is a sequence number.

Dim imap As New ChilkatImap

imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993

success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

success = imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Download message sequence number 1's MIME bytes into a BinData.  bUid = 0.
Dim bdMime As New ChilkatBinData
success = imap.FetchSingleBd(1,0,bdMime)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "MIME size (bytes) = " & bdMime.NumBytes

success = imap.Disconnect()
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If