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Get IMAP Mailbox Status

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.GetMailboxStatus method, which sends the IMAP STATUS command for a mailbox and returns the reported values as XML attributes — including messages (total count), recent, uidnext, uidvalidity, and unseen. This example gets the Inbox status.

Tip: XML parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat Tools.

Background: STATUS queries a mailbox's summary counts without selecting it — ideal for showing unread counts across many folders in a UI, or checking whether a folder has new mail before deciding to open it. Two values are especially useful for sync: uidvalidity (if it changes, previously stored UIDs are no longer valid) and uidnext (the UID the next new message will get, so anything at or above a remembered value is new).

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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    // Demonstrates the Imap.GetMailboxStatus method, which sends the IMAP STATUS command for a
    // mailbox and returns the reported values as XML attributes (such as messages, recent,
    // uidnext, uidvalidity, and unseen).

    const imap = try chilkat.Imap.init();
    defer imap.deinit();

    imap.setSsl(true);
    imap.setPort(993);

    imap.connect("imap.example.com") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    imap.login("user@example.com", "myPassword") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Get the status of a mailbox (without selecting it).
    const status_xml = imap.getMailboxStatus(alloc, "Inbox") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{status_xml});

    // XML parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
    // https://tools.chilkat.io/xmlParse

    imap.disconnect() catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try imap.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };
}