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(Xojo Plugin) Read IMAP Email HeadersCall FetchHeaders to download only the email headers. Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.
Dim success As Boolean success = False // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked. // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code. Dim imap As New Chilkat.Imap // Connect to an IMAP server. // Use TLS imap.Ssl = True imap.Port = 993 success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com") If (success = False) Then System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText) Return End If // Login success = imap.Login("****","****") If (success = False) Then System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText) Return End If // Select an IMAP mailbox success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox") If (success = False) Then System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText) Return End If // Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox // We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers. Dim fetchUids As Boolean fetchUids = True Dim messageSet As New Chilkat.MessageSet success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet) If (success = False) Then System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText) Return End If // When downloading headers, each email object contains // (obviously) the headers, but the body will be missing. // Also, attachments will not be included. However, it is // possible to get information about the attachments // as well as the complete size of the email. Dim bundle As New Chilkat.EmailBundle Dim headersOnly As Boolean headersOnly = True success = imap.FetchMsgSet(headersOnly,messageSet,bundle) If (success = False) Then System.DebugLog(imap.LastErrorText) Return End If // Loop over the email objects and display information // about each: Dim email As New Chilkat.Email Dim name As String Dim addr As String Dim i As Int32 i = 0 Dim j As Int32 j = 0 While i < bundle.MessageCount success = bundle.EmailAt(i,email) // Display the From and Subject System.DebugLog(email.From) System.DebugLog(email.Subject) // Display the recipients: j = 0 While j < email.NumTo System.DebugLog("TO: " + email.GetToName(j) + ", " + email.GetToAddr(j)) j = j + 1 Wend j = 0 While j < email.NumCC System.DebugLog("CC: " + email.GetCcName(j) + ", " + email.GetCcAddr(j)) j = j + 1 Wend // Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments: System.DebugLog(Str(email.Size)) // When a full email is downloaded, we would use the // email.NumAttachments property in conjunction with the // email.GetMailAttach* methods. // However, when an email object contains only the header, // we need to access the attachment info differently: Dim numAttach As Int32 numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email) j = 0 While j < numAttach System.DebugLog(imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j)) Dim attachSize As Int32 attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j) System.DebugLog(" size = " + Str(attachSize) + " bytes") j = j + 1 Wend System.DebugLog("--") Wend // Disconnect from the IMAP server. success = imap.Disconnect() |
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