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Delphi Example
Gmail IMAP4 server address is "imap.gmail.com". It requires SSL connection on 993 port, and you should use your Gmail email address as the user name for user authentication. For example: your email is "gmailid@gmail.com", and then the user name should be "gmailid@gmail.com".

To retrieve email from Gmail account, you need to enable POP3 or IMAP4 access in your gmail account settings.

Because Gmail POP3 server doesn't work like normal POP3 server, it hides old emails automatically even the email was not deleted, so we suggest that you use IMAP4 protocol.

The following example codes demonstrate how to retrieve email from Gmail IMAP4 server.

// The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from Gmail IMAP4 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); 

    // Gmail IMAP server address
    oServer.Server := 'imap.gmail.com'; 
    oServer.User := 'gmailid@gmail.com'; 
    oServer.Password := 'testpassword'; 
    oServer.Protocol := MailServerImap4; 

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

    // Set 993 IMAP SSL Port
    oServer.Port := 993; 

    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 Gmail IMAP4 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 Gmail IMAP4 server
      oClient.Delete(oInfo); 
    End; 

    // Quit and pure emails marked as deleted from Gmail IMAP4 server
    oClient.Quit; 

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

End. 
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