Rebex Mail for .NET Features - POP3
POP3 is a protocol for retrieving mail from a mailbox on a remote server.
It is a simple protocol that does not provide any advanced mail or folder
management capabilities - these are offered by IMAP, and
an IMAP component is a part of Rebex Mail
for .NET as well.
Major features
- Download mail as an instance of MailMessage
or MimeMessage.
- Download mail to a disk file or stream.
- Download message headers without the body.
- Retrieve message list filled with the specified info, such as size,
sequence number, unique ID or headers.
- Automatically detects and uses supported POP3 extensions.
- Both synchronous and asynchronous operations. Designed according
to .NET Framework asynchronous operations design patterns.
- Authentication to the POP3 server.
- Events can raised when command is sent, response is receiving
or data is transferred.
- Custom commands and enhanced status codes.
- Proxy support.
- Compatible with both state-of-the-art and legacy POP3 servers.
- Compliant with RFC 1939, 2449, 1734, 1321, 2195, etc.
Supported authentication methods
- Auto - automatically choose the best method available.
- Plain - RFC 2595 plaintext authentication.
- NTLM - Microsoft's Integrated Windows Authentication.
- Digest-MD5 - RFC 2831 DIGEST-MD5 authentication.
- CRAM-MD5 - RFC 2195 CRAM-MD5 authentication.
- Login - 'LOGIN' plaintext authentication.
- ClearText - Legacy plaintext USER/PASS login.
- APOP - POP3-specific challenge-response authentication.
Sample usage
This sample demonstrates checking for a new mail in a POP3 mailbox.
C#
using Rebex.Net;
...
Pop3 client = new Pop3();
client.Connect("pop3.example.org");
client.Login("username", "password");
if (myPop3.GetMessageCount() > 0)
MessageBox.Show("You have mail!");
VB.NET
Imports Rebex.Net
...
Dim client As New Pop3
client.Connect("pop3.example.org")
client.Login("username", "password")
If myPop3.GetMessageCount() > 0 Then
MessageBox.Show("You have mail!")
End If