Download your emails in MIME format with POP3

Do you need to store all business emails, for example, for legal or fiscal purposes? These documents must be stored as they are. That is, how they were received … in their original, unconverted formats. 4D v18 R3 answers this need by providing you with a new method allowing you to get emails in their original MIME format.

The POP3_transporter.getMIMEAsBlob( ) method enables you to obtain a BLOB containing the MIME content for a specific message:

$server:=New object
$server.host:="yourPOP3host.com"
$server.port:=995
$server.user:="4D.POP3@mail.com"
$server.password:="XXXXXX"

$blob:=$POP3_transporter.getMIMEAsBlob($mailNumber)

You can save the BLOB in your database or anywhere else. To transform your MIME into a mail object, just use the MAIL Convert from MIME command :

$mail:=MAIL Convert from MIME($blob)

Need more information? Check out the documentation.