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IMAP Read PEC Email of Aruba and Extract the Invoice XML Files

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IMAP Read PEC Email of Aruba and Extract the Invoice XML Files.

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim imap As New ChilkatImap

' Connect using TLS.
imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993
success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Authenticate
success = imap.Login("email_account_login","email_account_password")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox/postacert")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Search for messages having "POSTA CERTIFICATA: Invio File" in the subject.
Dim fetchUids As Long
fetchUids = 1
Dim messageSet As New MessageSet
success = imap.QueryMbx("SUBJECT ""POSTA CERTIFICATA: Invio File""",fetchUids,messageSet)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

If (messageSet.Count < 1) Then
    Debug.Print "No messages found."
    Exit Sub
End If

' For our example, we'll process only the 1st email in the messageSet.
' Download the MIME source of the email into a StringBuilder object.
Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
success = imap.FetchEmail(0,messageSet.GetId(0),messageSet.HasUids,email)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print imap.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' The email should contain an attached email.
' The Invoice XML is contained within the attached email.
Dim attachedEmail As New ChilkatEmail
success = email.GetAttachedEmail(0,attachedEmail)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print email.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Get the MIME of the attached email..
Dim sbMime As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = attachedEmail.GetMimeSb(sbMime)

' Load it into a Chilkat MIME object.
Dim mime As New ChilkatMime
success = mime.LoadMimeSb(sbMime)

' Examine the structure of the MIME.
Debug.Print mime.GetStructure("text")

' The MIME has this structure:
' multipart/mixed
'     application/octet-stream
'     application/octet-stream     <-- This is where the XML is contained.   It is within an opaque signature.
'     text/plain

' The 2nd application/octet-stream MIME header looks like this:

' ------=_Part_329673_-1348225228.1579889273592
' Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="SM99999_99aaa.xml.p7m"
' Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
' Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="SM99999_99aaa.xml.p7m"

' Let's get the binary content of the .p7m
Dim bdP7m As New ChilkatBinData
' Get the 2nd sub-part, at index 1 because index 0 is the 1st sub-part.

Dim mimeP7m As New ChilkatMime
success = mime.PartAt(1,mimeP7m)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print mime.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

If (mime.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print "Failed to get 2nd sub-part. Perhaps the MIME does not have a 2nd sub-part?"
    Exit Sub
End If

success = mimeP7m.GetBodyBd(bdP7m)

' Verify the signature, which also extracts the content contained within the opaque signature.
Dim crypt As New ChilkatCrypt2
success = crypt.OpaqueVerifyBd(bdP7m)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print crypt.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' The bdP7m now contains the Invoice XML.
' Load it into an XML object.
Dim xml As New ChilkatXml
success = xml.LoadBd(bdP7m,1)

Debug.Print xml.GetXml()

' We have XML such as the following:
' 
' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
' <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="fatturapa_v1.2.xsl"?>
' <p:FatturaElettronica versione="FPR12" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" 
'     xmlns:p="http://ivaservizi.agenziaentrate.gov.it/docs/xsd/fatture/v1.2" 
'     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
'     <FatturaElettronicaHeader>
' 	...
'     </FatturaElettronicaHeader>
'     <FatturaElettronicaBody>
' 	...
'     </FatturaElettronicaBody>
' </p:FatturaElettronica>

' Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample XML: 
' Generate Parsing Code from XML

Debug.Print "success."