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.

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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

#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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