VB6 - Retrieve Email from POP3 Server

' The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from POP3 server
' To get full sample projects, please download and install EAGetMail on your machine.
' To run it correctly, please change email server, user, password, folder, file name value to yours

Option Explicit

Const MailServerPop3 = 0
Const MailServerImap4 = 1

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim curpath As String
    Dim mailbox As String
    Dim oTools As New EAGetMailObjLib.Tools

    ' Create a folder named "inbox" under current directory
    ' to save the email retrieved.
    curpath = App.Path
    mailbox = curpath & "\inbox"
    oTools.CreateFolder mailbox

    Dim oServer As New EAGetMailObjLib.MailServer
    oServer.Server = "pop3.emailarchitect.net"
    oServer.User = "test@emailarchitect.net"
    oServer.Password = "testpassword"
    oServer.Protocol = MailServerPop3

    ' If your POP3 requires SSL connection
    ' Please add the following codes
    ' oServer.SSLConnection = True
    ' oServer.Port = 995

    On Error GoTo ErrorHandle:
    Dim oClient As New EAGetMailObjLib.MailClient
    oClient.LicenseCode = "TryIt"

    oClient.Connect oServer
    MsgBox "Connected"

    Dim infos
    infos = oClient.GetMailInfos()
    MsgBox UBound(infos) + 1 & " emails"

    Dim i As Integer
    For i = LBound(infos) To UBound(infos)
        Dim info As EAGetMailObjLib.MailInfo
        Set info = infos(i)
        MsgBox "Index: " & info.Index & "; Size: " & info.Size & _
        "; UIDL: " & info.UIDL

        ' Receive email from POP3 server
        Dim oMail As EAGetMailObjLib.Mail
        Set oMail = oClient.GetMail(info)

        MsgBox "From: " & oMail.From.Address & _
            vbCrLf & "Subject: " & oMail.Subject

        Dim fileName As String
        ' Generate a random file name by current local datetime,
        ' You can use your method to generate the filename if you do not like it
        fileName = mailbox & "\" & oTools.GenFileName(i) & ".eml

        ' Save email to local disk
        oMail.SaveAs fileName, True

        ' Mark email as deleted from POP3 server.
        oClient.Delete info
    Next

    ' Quit and pure emails marked as deleted from POP3 server.
    oClient.Quit
    Exit Sub

ErrorHandle:
    MsgBox Err.Description
End Sub