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Subscribe to an IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.Subscribe method, which subscribes the authenticated IMAP account to a mailbox. Subscription controls which mailboxes are returned by subscribed-mailbox listings. This example subscribes to a mailbox.

Background: An account can have many mailboxes, but a user often cares about only some of them. IMAP's subscription list is that curated set: mail clients typically show subscribed folders by default and hide the rest. Subscribing does not create or change a mailbox — it only adds it to the "show me this one" list (retrieved with a subscribed-only listing). Unsubscribe removes it from that list.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Demonstrates the Imap.Subscribe method, which subscribes the authenticated IMAP account to
'  a mailbox.  Subscription controls which mailboxes are returned by subscribed-mailbox
'  listings.

Dim imap As New Chilkat.Imap

imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993

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

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


'  Subscribe to a mailbox.
success = imap.Subscribe("Archive2026")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Debug.WriteLine("Subscribed to the mailbox.")

success = imap.Disconnect()
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If