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Unsubscribe from an IMAP Mailbox

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.Unsubscribe method, which removes the subscription to a mailbox. The mailbox itself and its messages are not deleted. This example unsubscribes from a mailbox.

Background: Unsubscribing simply drops a mailbox from the account's subscription list, so clients that show only subscribed folders will stop displaying it — the folder and everything in it remain on the server untouched. This is the counterpart to Subscribe, and is how you declutter a mailbox listing without deleting anything (deleting a folder is DeleteMailbox).

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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.Unsubscribe method, which removes the subscription to a mailbox.
'  The mailbox itself and its messages are not deleted.

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

'  Remove the subscription to a mailbox (the mailbox is not deleted).
success = imap.Unsubscribe("Archive2026")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Unsubscribed from the mailbox.")

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


outFile.Close