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MailBee POP3 Component
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MailBee POP3 Component

Enables your application or ASP web page to reliably and securely receive Internet mails via POP3 protocol

What's new in 5.5

  • Decoding MS-TNEF (winmail.dat) attachments
  • Detecting and decoding UUE attachments in text body
  • Access to non-standard text body parts (such as calendar items)
  • New settings and methods for manual and automatic charset conversions

Overview

MailBee POP3 MailBee POP3 allows you to quickly and easily download mail from POP3 servers in ASP, VB or any other ActiveX-capable application. It supports secure authentication on a POP3 server, full and partial download of messages (downloading headers), deleting messages, parsing and decoding messages into easy-to-use Message objects.

Like all other MailBee components, MailBee POP3 can be extended with MailBee SSL/SMIME plugin. This will enable full support of SSL/TLS connections (for instance, you can use it with GMail) and S/MIME.

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

MailBee POP3 returns downloaded messages as Message objects. Nothing gets saved to disk until the developer explicitly requests it.

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 Features

  • Supports secure authentication methods (including APOP, NTLM, MSN) during connection to POP3 server
  • 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...

Message Object Features

  • 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...