Overview

MailBee Objects is a set of powerful and easy to use ActiveX COMponents intended for usage in your Windows and 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 (secure authentication (APOP, NTLM, MSN) is also available), 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 created by the user. This object is attached to SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 objects thus switching them to secure communications mode
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 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.POP3 can also operate with MessageCensor library through GetCensoredBody method. MessageCensor is a powerful and customizable tool for removing any unwanted content from arbitrary html text (for example, html-formatted email message), and it is available for FREE from MailBee website.

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).

MailBee.SSL object allows you to implement secure communications mode just in a few lines of code: creating an SSL object and setting SSL property of SMTP, POP3 or IMAP4 object to reference of newly created SSL object. However, SSL object can be easily configured and tweaked if needed. For example, you can use regular port communications (secure communication on the same port as regular communication), search or check certificates, force specific security methods, and much 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.