Visual C++ - Retrieve Email from Hotmail/MSN Live Account

// The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from Hotmail/MSN Live 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");

        // Hotmail/MSN Live POP3 server address
        oServer->Server = _T("pop3.live.com");
        oServer->User = _T("liveid@hotmail.com");
        oServer->Password = _T("testpassword");
        oServer->Protocol = MailServerPop3;

        // Enable SSL connection
        oServer->SSLConnection = VARIANT_TRUE;

        // Set 995 POP3 SSL port
        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 Hotmail/MSN Live POP3 server
            IMailPtr oMail = oClient->GetMail(pInfo);

            // Save email to local disk
            oMail->SaveAs( szFile, VARIANT_TRUE );

            // Mark email as deleted from Hotmail/MSN Live 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;
}