Visual Basic 6.0

Load Emails from a .mbx Mailbox File

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.LoadMbxFile method, which loads emails from a .mbx mailbox file and stores them in an EmailBundle. If a filter has been configured, only the matching emails are returned. This example loads a local mailbox file and iterates the resulting bundle.

Background: An .mbx file is a single-file mailbox format that stores many messages concatenated together — historically produced by Outlook Express and similar clients. LoadMbxFile parses that archive into individual Email objects, which is useful for importing, migrating, or analyzing old mail without any server connection. No POP3 or SMTP session is involved — this reads purely from disk.

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Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the MailMan.LoadMbxFile method, which loads emails from a .mbx mailbox file
'  and stores them in an EmailBundle.  If a filter has been configured, only the matching
'  emails are returned.

Dim mailman As New ChilkatMailMan

'  Load emails from a local .mbx mailbox file (no server connection is made).
Dim bundle As New ChilkatEmailBundle

success = mailman.LoadMbxFile("qa_data/mbx/inbox.mbx",bundle)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print mailman.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim n As Long
n = bundle.MessageCount
Debug.Print "Loaded " & n & " emails from the .mbx file."

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail
Dim i As Long
For i = 0 To n - 1
    success = bundle.EmailAt(i,email)
    Debug.Print email.Subject
Next

'  Note: The path "qa_data/mbx/inbox.mbx" is a relative local filesystem path,
'  relative to the current working directory of the running application.