Tutorials / How to / Troubleshooting

MailBee Objects

1. Sending e-mails (SMTP)
   
   • Troubleshooting — Solving typical problems of e-mail sending.
   • Simple e-mail — Sending a simple plain-text e-mail.
   • HTML e-mail — Sending an HTML-formatted e-mail.
   • HTML e-mail from a file — Sending an HTML e-mail exported from an HTML file.
   • Adding attachments — Sending an e-mail with an attachment.
   • Embedding images and files — Sending an e-mail with embedded pictures, sounds, scripts and style-sheets.
   • Adding custom headers — Sending an e-mail with user-defined headers.
   • Advanced e-mail — Sending a complex e-mail with multiple bodies, attachments and recipients.
   • International e-mail — Sending an e-mail with UTF-8 body and international characters in the subject.
   • SMTP Authentication — Sending an e-mail through the SMTP server that requires senders to authenticate themselves.
   • Mail merge and bulk e-mail (Simple) — Sending multiple personalized e-mails using database as a source of recipients info.
   • Mail merge and bulk e-mail (Advanced) — Sending multiple personalized e-mails with attachments using database as a source of recipients info.
   • Mail merge and bulk e-mail (Queuing) — Queuing multiple e-mails for background delivery with MailBee Message Queue
   • Forwarding message — Taking an e-mail from the POP3 account and resending it to another recipient.
   • Redirecting message — Taking an e-mail from the POP3 account and redirecting it to another recipient, leaving the original recipients in the message headers.
   • Bounced messages (SMTP part) — Sending an e-mail in a way to allow tracking bounced mails.
   • Handling events — Tracking the progress of e-mail sending and making user interface responsive while communicating with the SMTP server.
   
   
   
2. Receiving e-mails (POP3)
   
   • Troubleshooting — Solving typical problems of e-mail receiving.
   • Using secure login — Logging in the POP3 mail account using secure methods.
   • Learning the number of messages — Learning the number of messages in the mailbox.
   • Learning the total size of messages — Learning the total size occupied by all messages in the mailbox.
   • Downloading headers — Downloading the headers of the messages.
   • Detecting attachments — Detecting whether a message has any attachments without downloading entire message.
   • Downloading entire message — Downloading entire message.
   • Search for new messages — Skipping already downloaded messages and downloading only new ones.
   • Displaying a message — Downloading and displaying a message.
   • Deleting a message — Deleting a message from the mailbox.
   • Bounced messages (POP3 part) — Processing bounced messages.
   • Handling events — Tracking the progress of e-mail receiving and making user interface responsive while communicating with the POP3 server.
   
   
   
3. Receiving e-mails (IMAP4)
   
   • Troubleshooting — Solving typical problems of e-mail receiving.
   • Connecting to server — Connecting to the IMAP4 server and logging in the mail account.
   • Selecting a mailbox — Selecting a mailbox to be examined.
   • Search for new messages — Locating and downloading new messages.
   • Select e-mail from list using Unique-ID (UID) — Using Unique-ID's to identify messages.
   • Downloading the list of messages — Downloading and displaying the list of all of the messages in the mailbox.
   • Downloading entire message — Downloading entire message.
   • Deleting & expunging messages — Deleting existing messages and expunging deleted messages from the mailbox.
   
   
   
4. Advanced
   
   • Validating e-mail address — Testing whether email address is correct.
   • Unicode and UTF-8 — Handling and displaying Unicode e-mails.
   • Forwarded messages — Handling messages encapsulated in another messages.