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Get IMAP Attachment Sizes

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.GetMailAttachSize method, which returns the size in bytes of an attachment. The first argument is the Email and the second is the zero-based attachment index. This example fetches headers only and prints each attachment's name and size.

Background: Like the attachment filename, the size comes from ckx-imap-* metadata and is available from a header-only fetch without downloading the body. A client can therefore show attachment sizes in a message preview, and decide whether to auto-download or prompt before pulling a large file.

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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

'  Demonstrates the Imap.GetMailAttachSize method, which returns the size in bytes of an
'  attachment.  The 1st argument is the Email and the 2nd is the zero-based attachment index.

set imap = CreateObject("Chilkat.Imap")

imap.Ssl = 1
imap.Port = 993

success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

success = imap.Login("user@example.com","myPassword")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Fetch only the message headers.  Attachment bodies are NOT downloaded, but the ckx-imap-*
'  metadata describing the attachments is present, so the attachment info methods still work.
headersOnly = 1
useUid = 0
seqNum = 1
set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
success = imap.FetchEmail(headersOnly,seqNum,useUid,email)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)

For i = 0 To numAttach - 1
    fname = imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,i)
    If (imap.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    sz = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,i)
    outFile.WriteLine(fname & ": " & sz & " bytes")
Next

success = imap.Disconnect()
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If


outFile.Close