MailBee IMAP4 Component

MailBee IMAP4 Component

Fast and flexible COM object that enables your application or ASP page to search, receive, parse and manage email over IMAP4 protocol
MailBee Objects bundle includes SMTP, POP3, IMAP, S/MIME components.
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Documentation: MailBee IMAP Forum
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Current version: 7.0.1
Last update: 28 Dec 2011

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MailBee IMAP4 enables developers to easily add IMAP capabilities to their Windows or classic ASP applications. The component supports message search and checking new/read/unread status (all of the above - without downloading entire messages or even message headers). All the basic features are fully supported as well - preview messages, download, parse and manage messages and mailboxes (folders). The component can be used in any ActiveX-aware language such as classic ASP, VB, Delphi, C++, etc.

The component supports a number of IMAP extensions like IDLE (instant notifications about new events like arrival of a new e-mail) and XLIST (special folder flags like Drafts, Sent, Trash).

With SSL support available at no additional cost, you can download e-mail from S/IMAP servers, such as Gmail.

With the help of MailBee S/MIME Component, encrypted or signed e-mails can be decrypted and verified.

No knowledge of IMAP4, SSL, MIME and S/MIME is required.


IMAP Object

  • Retrieves entire message, message header, message header and part of message body, message envelope and body structure
  • Searches messages that match specified criteria
  • Retrieves, selects and manages mailboxes
  • Copies and deletes messages on the IMAP4 server
  • Provides event notification mechanism and background processing
  • Supports logging IMAP4 session into the file
  • Executes user-supplied commands
  • Ping method for keeping connection alive
  • Automatically decodes received messages from MIME format
  • Automatically generates plain-text version for HTML-only messages
  • Supports secure authentication methods (NTLM, MSN, GSSAPI, including Integrated Windows Authentication)
  • Supports special folder flags (Drafts, Sent, etc) using XLIST extension developed by GMail and Apple
  • Supports UIDs
  • Supports IDLE and QUOTA extensions
  • Full support for Unicode, UTF8, and UTF-7M mailbox names. Supports international headers, attachment names, bodies, etc

IMAP4 Object reference...


What's new

Version 7.0
  • IPv6 support
  • Non-standard IMAP message flags (like $Spam, \Starred, etc)
  • Support of multiple HTML bodies in the message (such as e-mails created by Apple Mail)
  • Load e-mail from memory
  • New methods and events to track and control data receiving progress

Version 6.0
  • GSSAPI/NTLM and GSSAPI/Kerberos authentication
  • plain NTLM authentication rewritten with SSPI, now works with MS Exchange 2007/2010
  • Integrated Windows Authentication (authenticate using the current Windows user credentials)
  • SSL support now built-in and easier to use, no separate license required
  • Support of XLIST extension allows you to detect special folders like Sent or Drafts
  • Ability to get the list of the supported capabilities (extensions)

Version 5.8.5
  • SaveKey utility (saves MailBee license key in the registry) is now also available for Windows Vista/2008/Seven (32-bit and 64-bit).
  • IMAP search now works with AOL (which produces RFC-incompliant SEARCH responses)

MailMessage Object

  • Available in all MailBee Objects packages (POP3, SMTP, Objects). Used as a main unit POP3 retrieval and SMTP sending methods operate with
  • Because SMTP object composes messages using Message object, all composing functionality of SMTP object also applies to Message object
  • Includes collection of a message's attachments
  • Provides access to custom message headers through GetHeader method
  • Can be created explicitly through CreateObject and then saved to disk or sent by SMTP object
  • Any content can be loaded to RawBody property (such as content of message file or attachment with message inside)
  • RawBody operates symmetrically: when you set Message properties or call Message-affecting methods (such as AddAttachment), RawBody will reflect this changes next time you read it; when you load RawBody with new value, other Message properties such as BodyText are refreshed
  • No redundant refreshes on RawBody. If you sequentially change some Message properties, RawBody will be updated only when you read it, not after every changing Message properties

Message Object reference...