MailBee.NET IMAP component

Manage, download, search and process mails and folders on IMAP4 servers

MailBee.NET Objects bundle includes SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Security, AntiSpam, Outlook, PDF components
and also BounceMail, HTML, MIME and ICalVCard components which are a free functionality.

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Current version: 7.3
Last update: 10 Dec 2012

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MailBee.NET IMAP is a high-performance memory-conservative .NET component for processing mails and folders on IMAP4 servers. The component can do everything the POP3 component does, and much more: download and manage folders, search, flag, upload, move, copy messages, download message envelopes or any specific parts or attributes of messages, etc.

MailBee.NET IMAP downloads messages in a batch, drastically improving performance.

MailBee.NET IMAP bundle includes a set of MIME objects such as MailMessage and Attachment which are used for e-mail parsing.

Written in 100% managed code, MailBee.NET IMAP only requires the .NET framework be installed on the computer.

MailBee.NET IMAP can be used in any .NET language including C# and VB.NET. Supported .NET frameworks include .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5.

With MailBee.NET Objects license, you also get these MailBee.NET components for free: BounceMail, HTML, MIME, ICalVCard.

MailBee.NET IMAP Component fully supports:

Protocols

• IMAP/IDLE/XLIST
• HTTP
• SSL/TLS
• SASL
• NTLM
• Kerberos
• SOCKS4/5
• HTTP Proxy

Security

• DomainKeys/DKIM
• S/MIME
• SSL/TLS
• NTLM/GSSAPI
• CRAM-MD5/DIGEST-MD5
• FIPS
• OAuth
• OpenID

Formats

• MIME/.EML
• .MHT
• XML
• HTML
• vCard
• iCal
• PDF

Servers & Services

• MS Exchange
• Lotus Notes
• GroupWise
• IIS SMTP/POP3
• IMail
• MailEnable
• AxiGen
• SmarterMail
• SurgeMail
• MDaemon
• Kerio
• CommuniGate
• hMailServer

• Qmail
• Courier
• Dovecot
• Cyrus
• Zimbra

• GMail
• Yahoo

...and any POP3/SMTP/IMAP compliant servers

IMAP Object

Download entire messages, headers only, envelopes, or anything else which can be returned by IMAP's FETCH command
Download and manage folders (international folder names fully supported)
Get special folder flags like Sent, Drafts, Trash (if server supports XLIST)
Download messages through a proxy server
Get already downloaded messages/envelopes if the entire operation failed in the middle
Supports secure TLS/SSL connections out-of-box (supports Gmail, etc)
Upload a message in a folder
Copy messages between folders
UNIQUE Move messages between folders
UNIQUE Obtain UID of uploaded/copied/moved messages if the server supports UIDPLUS
Delete messages
Examine and set message flags
Expunge (i.e. purge) deleted messages
UNIQUE Expunge specific deleted messages
Search messages
Search and sort messages if IMAP SORT is supported by the server
IDLE mode to get notifications from the server on mailbox status change
Secure authentication (CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, NTLM, Kerberos)
UNIQUE Windows Integrated Authentication (authenticate using the current Windows user credentials)
User-defined authentication methods
UNIQUE Get account quota and used space size if the server supports QUOTA
Automatic detection and use of IMAP capabilities
UNIQUE Faster upload if the server supports LITERAL+
UNIQUE Can tolerate incorrectly formatted responses from the server (keeping the application informed if this happens)
Provides methods for converting IMAP strings, dates, international folder names, etc
Logging IMAP session into a file or memory
Returns e-mails as MailMessage objects which can be interchanged with other objects (Smtp, etc)
Can check DomainKeys/DKIM signatures of e-mails (using SMTP component)
Parses bounced e-mails and delivery notifications
Send user-defined commands to the server
Rich set of events and asynchronous processing options
Can be placed on the form or created in the code

Imap Object reference...

MailMessage Object

Import and export from/into System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
Used by Smtp object as outgoing e-mail
Returned by Pop3 and Imap objects as incoming e-mail
Multiple recipients (To/CC/BCC)
Multiple attachments
Advanced mail merge
Can be encrypted, signed, decrypted, or verified with Smime object
Easy access to plain-text and HTML body
Full support of international encodings and charsets
Can extract attachments from MS-TNEF (winmail.dat) files
Access to every MIME part
Access to all message headers
Access to message timestamps ("Received:" headers)
UNIQUEConversion from HTML to plain-text and vice versa including high-lighting of URIs, images, quotations, etc
UNIQUEFull support of creating and displaying HTML messages with embedded pictures in desktop and web applications
UNIQUEAccess forwarded messages (GetEncapsulatedMessage)
Forward message as attachment
Import HTML file or web page into e-mail
Import & export message data from/into memory, file and stream
Serialize into XML and deserialize from XML
Base64 and Quoted-Printable
Confirm Read & Confirm Receipt
Reply-To, Priority, Importance, Sensitivity, etc

MailMessage Object reference...

What's new

Version 7.3

Windows 8 compatible installer.
Better compatibility with .Net 4.0/4.5
New SSL certificate checking options.
MIME parser improvements.

Version 7.2

Support of Gmail IMAP extensions to extract Gmail-specific thread ID, message ID, message labels. Lets you perform message search with Google syntax, add and remove message labels.
Autodetect of Yahoo port and SSL mode.
Misc. improvements to MIME parser (especially timestamps), DomainKeys/DKIM.

Version 7.1

Misc. improvements to MIME parser, TNEF parse, and Delivery Status Notification parser.

Version 7.0.1

New MailBee.Global.LicenseKey property to specify the license key for all components at once.
Misc. fixes and improvements to the installer and documentation.

Version 7.0

Now includes MailBee.NET.dll natively compiled for .NET 4.0 (.NET 2.0/3.5 is still fully supported).
License keys of a new format.

See Version History for details

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