MailBee.NET POP3 component

Enable your .NET applications to receive, parse, and display e-mails at lightspeed

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: 7.1
Last update: 18 Jan 2012

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MailBee.NET POP3 is a high-performance and easy-to-use .NET component developers can use to download mail from POP3 servers, parse it, prepare it for display in desktop or web applications, and more.

MailBee.NET POP3 supports POP3 PIPELINING which can make e-mails headers download 10+ times faster!

MailBee.NET POP3 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 POP3 only requires the .NET framework be installed on the computer.

MailBee.NET POP3 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.

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

MailBee.NET POP3 Component fully supports:

Protocols

• POP3
• HTTP
• SSL/TLS
• SASL
• NTLM
• Kerberos
• SOCKS4/5
• HTTP Proxy

Security

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

Formats

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

Servers & Services

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

• Exim
• Postfix
• Sendmail
• Qmail
• Courier
• Dovecot
• Cyrus
• Zimbra

• GMail
• Hotmail
• Yahoo

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

POP3 Object

Download entire messages
Download headers only
UNIQUE Download messages/headers in PIPELINING mode - can boost performance up to 1000%
UNIQUE Download messages with a single line of code (QuickDownloadMessage)
Download messages through a proxy server
Get already downloaded messages if the entire operation failed in the middle
Delete messages
Supports secure TLS/SSL connections out-of-box (supports Gmail, etc)
Secure authentication (APOP, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, NTLM, Kerberos)
UNIQUEWindows Integrated Authentication (authenticate using the current Windows user credentials)
User-defined authentication methods
Automatic detection and use of POP extensions (CAPA)
Logging POP3 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

Pop3 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 7.1

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.

Version 6.10

Support of OpenID and Hybrid OpenID/OAuth authorization
Improved authentication against MS Exchange server
Support of iCal format (create or parse events, appointments, etc)
Added Developer's Guide for POP3 component
New ASP.NET samples
Fixes to MIME functionality

Version 6.9

Support of vCard format (parse, display photo, etc)
Message-ID now returns its value enclosed in angle brackets "<>"
Misc. fixes to MIME functionality

Version 6.8

POP3 component now supports negative message indexes (e.g. access the last e-mail in the inbox with -1 index)
Can extract RTF message body from MS-TNEF (winmail.dat attachment)
DKIM/DomainKeys verification made easier and no longer requires Smtp license
MailMessage.Parser.FixCrLf property to deal with e-mails not having the correct CrLf sequence at the end of each body line
XOAUTH fix (important for Gmail users)
added new bounced e-mail formats

See Version History for details