Visual C++ - 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 Visual C++ Project
To use EAGetMail POP3 & IMAP4 ActiveX Object in your project, the first step is
"Add header files of EAGetMail to your project". Please go to "C:\Program Files\EAGetMail\Samples_VS2008\pop3_imap4_simple.vcNative"
or "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGetMail\Samples_VS2008\pop3_imap4_simple.vcNative"
folder, find "eagetmailobj.tlh" and "eagetmailobj.tli", and then copy
these files to your project folder. Now you can start to use EAGetMail to retrieve
email and parse email in your project.
// 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
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "eagetmailobj.tlh"
using namespace EAGetMailObjLib;
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
const int
MailServerPop3 = 0;
const int
MailServerImap4 = 1;
// Initialize COM environment
::CoInitialize( NULL );
// Create a folder named "inbox" under current
exe file directory
// to save the emails retrieved.
TCHAR szPath[MAX_PATH+1];
memset( szPath, 0, sizeof(szPath));
::GetModuleFileName( NULL, szPath, MAX_PATH );
// Change file name to current full path
LPCTSTR psz = _tcsrchr( szPath, _T(' '));
if( psz != NULL )
{
szPath[psz-szPath] = _T(' 0');
}
TCHAR szMailBox[MAX_PATH+1];
memset( szMailBox, 0, sizeof(szMailBox));
wsprintf( szMailBox, _T("%s\\inbox"),
szPath );
// Create a folder to store emails
::CreateDirectory( szMailBox, NULL );
try
{
IMailServerPtr oServer = NULL;
oServer.CreateInstance("EAGetMailObj.MailServer");
oServer->Server = _T("pop3.emailarchitect.net");
oServer->User = _T("test@emailarchitect.net");
oServer->Password = _T("testpassword");
oServer->Protocol = MailServerPop3;
// If your POP3 requires
SSL connection
// Please add the following
codes
// oServer->SSLConnection
= VARIANT_TRUE;
// oServer->Port
= 995;
IMailClientPtr oClient = NULL;
oClient.CreateInstance("EAGetMailObj.MailClient");
oClient->LicenseCode = _T("TryIt");
oClient->Connect( oServer );
_tprintf(_T("Connected\r\n"));
_variant_t infos = oClient->GetMailInfos();
SAFEARRAY *psa = infos.parray;
long LBound
= 0, UBound = 0;
SafeArrayGetLBound( psa, 1, &LBound
);
SafeArrayGetUBound( psa, 1, &UBound
);
INT count = UBound-LBound+1;
_tprintf(_T("Total
%d emails\r\n"), count );
for( long i = LBound; i <= UBound; i++ )
{
_variant_t
vtInfo;
SafeArrayGetElement(
psa, &i, &vtInfo );
IMailInfoPtr
pInfo;
vtInfo.pdispVal->QueryInterface(__uuidof(IMailInfo),
(void**)&pInfo);
TCHAR szFile[MAX_PATH+1];
memset(
szFile, 0, sizeof(szFile));
//
Generate a random file name by current local datetime,
//
You can use your method to generate the filename if you do not like it
SYSTEMTIME
curtm;
::GetLocalTime(
&curtm );
::wsprintf(
szFile, _T("%s\\%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d%03d%d.eml"),
szMailBox,
curtm.wYear,
curtm.wMonth,
curtm.wDay,
curtm.wHour,
curtm.wMinute,
curtm.wSecond,
curtm.wMilliseconds,
i
);
//
Receive email from POP3 server
IMailPtr
oMail = oClient->GetMail(pInfo);
//
Save email to local disk
oMail->SaveAs(
szFile, VARIANT_TRUE );
//
Mark email as deleted from POP3 server.
oClient->Delete(
pInfo );
}
// Delete method just
mark the email as deleted,
// Quit method pure
the emails from server exactly.
infos.Clear();
oClient->Quit();
}
catch( _com_error &ep )
{
_tprintf( _T("Error:
%s"), (const TCHAR*)ep.Description());
}
return 0;
}
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