Delphi - Retrieve Email from POP3 Server

The following example codes demonstrate how to retrieve email from POP3 server. This sample downloads emails from POP3 server and deletes the email after the email is retrieved.

Installation

Before you can use the following sample codes, you should download the EAGetMail Installer and install it on your machine at first.

Add Reference of EAGetMail to Delphi Project

To use EAGetMail POP3 & IMAP4 ActiveX Object in your project, the first step is "Add reference of EAGetMail to your project". Please choose menu->"Project" -> "Import Type Library"- > and choose the "EAGetMailObj ActiveX Object", click "Create Unit", the reference of EAGetMail ActiveX Object will be added to your project, and you can start to use EAGetMail to retrieve email and parse email in your project.

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// 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

Unit Unit1;

Interface

Uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs, StdCtrls, EAGetMailObjLib_TLB;

Type
  TForm1 = Class(TForm)
    Button1: TButton;
    Procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  End;

Const
  MailServerPop3 = 0;
  MailServerImap4 = 1;

Var
  Form1: TForm1;

Implementation

{$R *.dfm}

Procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
Var
  oMail: IMail;
  oClient: TMailClient;
  oServer: TMailServer;
  oTools: TTools;
  infos: OleVariant;
  i, UBound, Count: Integer;
  oInfo: IMailInfo;
  mailFolder: WideString;
  fileName: WideString;
Begin
  Try
    oTools := TTools.Create(Application);

    // Create a folder named "inbox" under
    // current directory to store the email files
    mailFolder := GetCurrentDir() + '\inbox';
    oTools.CreateFolder(mailFolder);

    oServer := TMailServer.Create(Application);
    oServer.Server := 'pop3.emailarchitect.net';
    oServer.User := 'test@emailarchitect.net';
    oServer.Password := 'testpassword';
    oServer.Protocol := MailServerPop3;

    // If your server requires SSL connection
    // Please add the following codes
    // oServer.SSLConnection := true;
    // oServer.Port := 995;

    oClient := TMailClient.Create(Application);
    oClient.LicenseCode := 'TryIt';

    oClient.Connect1(oServer.DefaultInterface);
    ShowMessage( 'Connected!' );

    infos := oClient.GetMailInfos();
    UBound := VarArrayHighBound( infos, 1 );
    Count := UBound+1;
    ShowMessage(Format('Total %d email(s)', [Count]));

    For i := 0 To UBound Do
    Begin
      oInfo := IDispatch(VarArrayGet(infos, i)) As IMailInfo ;
      ShowMessage(Format('Index: %d; Size: %d; UIDL: ' + oInfo.UIDL,
      [oInfo.Index, oInfo.Size]));

      // 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 := mailFolder + '\' + oTools.GenFileName(i) + '.eml;

      // Receive email from POP3 server
      oMail := oClient.GetMail( oInfo );

      ShowMessage( 'From: ' + oMail.From.Address + #13#10 +
        'Subject: ' + oMail.Subject );

      // Save email to local disk
      oMail.SaveAs( fileName, true );

      // Mark email as deleted from POP3 server
      oClient.Delete(oInfo);
    End;

    // Quit and pure emails marked as deleted from POP3 server
    oClient.Quit;

  Except
    On ep:Exception Do
      ShowMessage( 'Error: ' + ep.Message );
  End;
End;

End.

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