MailBee POP3 Component

MailBee POP3 Component

Enables your application or ASP web page to reliably and securely receive Internet mails via POP3 protocol
MailBee Objects bundle includes SMTP, POP3, IMAP, S/MIME components.
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Documentation: MailBee POP3 Forum
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Current version: 7.0.1
Last update: 28 Dec 2011

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MailBee POP3 allows you to easily download and parse e-mail from POP3 servers in classic ASP, VB, Delphi or any other ActiveX-aware environment. The component supports secure authentication on a POP3 server (including NTLM and GSSAPI used by MS Exchange 2007/2010), full and partial download of messages (downloading headers), deleting messages, parsing and decoding messages into easy-to-use Message objects.

With SSL support available at no additional cost, you can download e-mail from S/POP3 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 POP3, SSL, MIME and S/MIME is required.

MailBee POP3 returns downloaded messages as Message objects. Nothing gets saved to disk unless the developer explicitly needs this.

Message class is a standard e-mail message container in MailBee. For instance, you can get a message from POP3 object and then re-send it with SMTP object.


POP3 Object

  • Supports secure authentication methods (APOP, NTLM, GSSAPI, including Integrated Windows Authentication)
  • Can retrieve all messages as a collection, retrieve only headers for each message, headers + part of message body
  • Can retrieve any single particular message or (its headers)
  • Can detect total message count in the mailbox, total size of all messages and sizes of every message. All of above does not require to retrieve messages or headers
  • Automatically parses retrieved messages and headers (decoding from base64/quoted-printable/uue, converting charset to windows code page, etc.)
  • Automatically creates plain-text version of HTML formatted message if plain version is not available in the message itself
  • Can determine whether a message contains attachments when downloading message headers only
  • Can delete messages from POP3 server
  • Supports logging POP3 session into the file
  • Can execute user-specified commands (SendCommand method)
  • Ping method allows to implement "keep connection alive" function in your applications
  • Supports event mechanism to track retrieval progress (and abort retrieval if needed)

POP3 Object reference...


What's new

Version 7.0
  • IPv6 support
  • Support of multiple HTML bodies in the message (such as e-mails created by Apple Mail)
  • Load e-mail from memory

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

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).

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...