Populates the messageID array of a mailSession object with the message IDs in the user’s inbox.
mailSession object
mailsession.mailGetMessages ( { messagetype, } { unreadonly } )
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
mailsession |
A mailSession object identifying the session in which you want to get the messages. |
messagetype (optional) |
A string whose value is a message type. The default message type is IPM or an empty string (""), which identifies interpersonal messages. The other standard type is IPC, which identifies hidden, interprocess messages. Your mail administrator may have established other user-defined message types. |
unreadonly (optional) |
A boolean value indicating you want only the IDs of unread messages. Values are:
|
mailReturnCode. Returns one of the following values:
mailReturnSuccess!
mailReturnFailure!
mailReturnInsufficientMemory!
mailReturnNoMessages!
mailReturnUserAbort!
If any argument’s value is null, mailGetMessages returns null.
MailGetMessages only retrieves message IDs, which it stores in the mailSession object’s MessageID array. A message ID serves as an argument for other mail functions. With mailReadMessage, for example, it identifies the message you want to read.
Before calling mail functions, you must declare and create a mailSession object and call mailLogon to establish a mail session.
This example populates a DataWindow with the messages in the user’s inbox. The DataWindow is defined with an external data source and has three columns: msgid, msgdate, and msgsubject. MailGetMessages fills the MessageID array in the mailSession object and mailReadMessage gets the information for each ID.
The example assumes that the application has already created the mailSession object mSes and logged on:
mailMessage msg
long n, c_row
mSes.mailGetMessages()
FOR n = 1 to UpperBound(mSes.MessageID[])
mSes.mailReadMessage(mSes.MessageID[n], &
msg, mailEnvelopeOnly!, FALSE)
c_row = dw_1.InsertRow(0)
dw_1.SetItem(c_row, "msgid", mSes.MessageID[n])
dw_1.SetItem(c_row, "msgdate", msg.DateReceived)
// Truncate subject to fit defined column size
dw_1.SetItem(c_row, "msgsubject", &
Left(msg.Subject, 50))
NEXT
