MailBee Objects

MailBee Objects

Enables your application to send, receive, parse and manage e-mail over POP3, IMAP4, SMTP and SSL protocols
MailBee Objects bundle includes SMTP, POP3, IMAP, S/MIME components.

MailBee Objects is a complete set of ActiveX components you can use to create and send messages to SMTP servers, receive, parse and delete e-mail messages from POP3 servers, and manage e-mail messages and folders on IMAP4 servers. It also supports SSL/TLS and S/MIME for better security.

This is ActiveX component. Looking for .NET version? See MailBee.NET Objects.

MailBee components can be used in ASP, VB, Delphi, C++, or any other language which supports ActiveX technology. Supports all Windows versions from 2000, 32/64 bit.

No knowledge of SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, SSL, MIME and S/MIME is required.

MailBee Objects includes the licenses for all MailBee components including SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, S/MIME along with Message and related objects.

Features

  • SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 mail protocols
  • SSL connections and STARTTLS (supports Gmail, Live.com and other SSL-only mail services), client and server certificates
  • Secure authentication (OAuth 2.0, NTLM, GSSAPI, CRAM-MD5, APOP)
  • International charsets, UTF-8, automatic codepage conversion, IDN domains
  • Events, logging, error codes
  • Background execution (does not freeze the user interface in Windows desktop applications)
  • Compose, mail-merge and send mail through SMTP server, submit to IIS SMTP queue or MailBee.NET Queue, or send directly to end recipients via DNS MX lookup
  • Relay mail from a file
  • Custom SMTP commands
  • ESMTP authentication
  • Import HMTL mail from file (automatically embeds pictures and other related files into the message)
  • HTML to plain-text conversion
  • Unlimited attachments
  • Non-standard body parts (XML, etc)
  • Accurate message parser (can decode bad-formatted e-mails)
  • MS-TNEF (winmail.dat) decoding
  • Custom headers
  • Access to the raw MIME source of the message
  • S/MIME encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify, certificates, PFX
  • Download messages via POP3 entirely or headers-only
  • Delete messages via POP3
  • Custom POP3 and IMAP commands
  • UIDs (Unique-IDs) in POP3 and IMAP (useful to distinguish between new and already downloaded messages)
  • Download messages, body parts, envelopes and folders (mailboxes) via IMAP
  • Search, upload, delete and expunge messages, manage mailboxes, set and check flags via IMAP
  • IMAP IDLE, XLIST, SPECIAL-USE, CHILDREN, MOVE, SORT, QUOTA extensions
  • Uploader object to upload files from the web browser to the web server (useful for ASP applications)
  • IMAP UTF-7M encoding for mailboxes with international names
  • OAuth 2.0 support, including Gmail and Office 365

What's new

Version 9.4

  • TLS 1.3 support.

Version 9.3

  • OAuth 2.0 support, including Gmail and Office 365

Version 9.2

  • Better IPv6 support.
  • IMAP4 UIDPLUS extension support (IMAP4.UIDPlusResult property).
  • PFX support in SMIME.AddRecipientCert method.
  • Improved parsing of email addresses.
  • SHA-256 signing in S/MIME.
  • 3DES encryption in S/MIME.
  • S/MIME signatures with full certificate chain.
  • More accurate error handling in S/MIME.
  • See History for other changes and details.

Version 9.1

  • Support of international e-mail addresses (IDN domains).

Version 9.0.2

  • SHA256 signatures to all .DLLs (in addition to SHA1 signatures).

Version 9.0.1

  • TLS 1.1/1.2 support.

Version 9.0

  • Authenticode signatures for all .DLLs and the installer.
  • IMAP MOVE extension support (moving messages).
  • IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension support (special mailbox flags).
  • IMAP CHILDREN extension support (special mailbox flags).
  • IMAP SORT extension support (sorting of search results).
  • IMAP UNSEEN response support (message number of the first unseen message in the mailbox).
  • IMAP UIDNEXT response support (next predicted UID in the mailbox).
  • IMAP STATUS command support (unseen count, message count and other info for a mailbox without selecting it).
  • IMAP message sets - arbitrary sequences of message numbers or UIDs (more flexible than ranges, enable doing more actions in a single batch).
  • IMAP SetSeenFlag in RetrieveSingleMessage method.
  • IMAP QUOTA now returns not only allocated but also occupied space in the mailbox (QuotaUsage property).
  • AddressDelimiter property to make it easier to split address strings into individual addresses.
  • Filename autogeneration for attachments without filenames. New FilenameAsIs property to get the original filename.
  • Samples now reside in My Documents instead of Program Files (eliminates UAC issues when opening sample projects).
  • See History for other changes and details.

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