Overview

MailBee Objects is a set of powerful and easy to use ActiveX/COM components intended for usage in your Windows and classic ASP web pages to get email messages from Internet servers using POP3/IMAP4 protocols or send them via SMTP protocol, including converting e-mail messages from or into MIME format.

MailBee Objects contain several objects and collections:

POP3 object is created by the user. It connects to POP3 server (including APOP, NTLM, MSN, GSSAPI/NTLM, GSSAPI/Kerberos secure authentication), retrieves messages and creates Message objects. You can get all messages at once (in this case POP3 returns you Messages collection), or you can receive particular message (and get single Message object)
IMAP4 object is created by the user. It connects to IMAP4 server, retrieves messages or message envelopes (advanced variant of message header)
SMTP object is created by the user. It connects to SMTP server (secure authentication is also available), sends composed or relays previously saved to disk messages
Message object includes properties to access message headers ("From", "Subject", etc.) and collection of e-mail attachments (Attachments property). Message objects used for both email retrieval and sending (POP3/IMAP4 objects create them for you, while you may create them for SMTP object)
Attachment object represents message attachment. Message object can hold an unlimited number of the attachments in Attachments collection
SSL object is always available through SSL property of a mailer object (SMTP, POP3, or IMAP4 object)
SMIME object is created by the user. This object allows e-mails securing according to the S/MIME standard. Message object is processed using the properties and methods of the SMIME object (such as Encrypt, Decrypt, Sign, etc)

MailBee.POP3, MailBee.IMAP4, MailBee.SMTP and MailBee.SMIME objects have LicenseKey property. When you purchase the entire MailBee Objects bundle, you get the licenses for all of them. If you purchase only a single component, you get the license for that component only. All other objects have no license keys and are always available for use regardless which license you own.

MailBee.POP3 object allows you to write e-mail managing and retrieving engine in just a few seconds. MailBee.POP3 automatically performs complex operations such as splitting message into parts, decoding headers and body from various MIME-encodings (Base64, quoted-printable, UUE), converting charsets to native Window codepage. With MailBee.POP3, you have access to both raw and decoded message content, and can do everything with it - save to database, to disk, or even modify message properties and then send the message with MailBee.SMTP object.

MailBee.IMAP4 is a version of MailBee.POP3 object for IMAP4 mail protocol. It supports advanced IMAP4 features such as message envelopes and body structures, message search, looking for new/unread/recent messages, multiple mailboxes, and much more.

MailBee.SMTP object is an easy to use tool to create and send e-mail messages. It supports creating both plain-text and html-formatted messages with attachments and inline objects (including automatic alternative body creation, automatic scanning and adding attachments for specified html source and much more). As MailBee.POP3, MailBee.SMTP also allows you to use secure authentication to SMTP servers.

MailBee.SMTP object can be extended with external MailBee Message Queue system to enable message queuing that can noticeably improve performance of email sending applications or web pages. Alternatively, if your mail server is IIS SMTP, you can submit messages directly into its pickup folder (like CDONTS does).

Both MailBee.POP3, MailBee.IMAP4 and MailBee.SMTP objects support event firing for better control of the requested operations and logging capabilities (in many cases logging might noticeably simplify debugging and development).

SSL property of every mailer class allows you to implement secure communications mode 2 lines of code: enabling SSL object with Mailer.SSL.Enabled=True and setting PortNumber property of Mailer object (which can be an instance of SMTP, POP3 or IMAP4 class). Alternatively, instead of changing PortNumber, you can set SSL.UseStartTLS to use secure connection on a regular port). Also, SSL object can be easily configured and tweaked if needed. You can not only make it use regular port communications (secure communication on the same port as regular communication) instead of dedicated port, but also search or check certificates, force specific security protocols, and more.

MailBee.SMIME object allows you to secure your e-mails easily by using the digital certificates. This object allows you to add the digital signatures to new messages; to encrypt the messages; to verify digital signatures of received messages and to decrypt these messages; to manage the digital certificates of the message senders and recipients.