VBScript

Transition from MailMan.FetchEmail to MailMan.FetchByUidl

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated FetchEmail method calls with FetchByUidl. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set mailman = CreateObject("Chilkat.MailMan")

' ...
' ...

uidl = "123"

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' The FetchEmail method is deprecated:

' emailObj is a Chilkat.Email
Set emailObj = mailman.FetchEmail(uidl)
If (mailman.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' ...
' ...

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

headerOnly = 0
' Irrelevant because we are not downloading headers-only.
numBodyLines = 0

set emailOut = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
success = mailman.FetchByUidl(uidl,headerOnly,numBodyLines,emailOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If


outFile.Close