Delphi - Retrieve Email from Hotmail/MSN Live Account

// The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from Hotmail/MSN Live 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);

    // Hotmail/MSN Live POP3 server address
    oServer.Server := 'pop3.live.com';
    oServer.User := 'liveid@hotmail.com';
    oServer.Password := 'testpassword';
    oServer.Protocol := MailServerPop3;

    // Enable SSL connection
    oServer.SSLConnection := true;

    // Set 995 SSL Port
    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 Hotmail/MSN Live 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 Hotmail/MSN Live POP3 server
      oClient.Delete(oInfo);
    End;

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

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

End.