Mail for .NET Protocol Support

SMTP for sending email

• Send email with a single line of code!
• Secure (SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, PCT, TLS) or unencrypted TCP communications supported
• Automatic session management. No need to explicitly "Login" or "Logout"
• Synchronously or asynchronously send messages
• Progress event reports the current status of the Send operation
• Encrypt outbound Secure MIME (S/MIME) messages
• Send ANY command to the server using the exposed TCP connection
• Trace event exposes the underlying TCP communication
• DSN (Delivery Status Notification) fully supported
• Supports full Pipelining for sending multiple messages on an open connection

POP3 for receiving email

• Secure (SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, PCT, TLS) or unencrypted TCP communications supported
• Easy session management - default behavior is to login, get all messages, and automatically log out.
• Flexible message retrieval:
  • Get all messages at once, or one at a time
  • Get an entire message, or only the header
  • Get only a specified number of lines
• Stream support:
  • Attachments can be decoded and stored as FileStreams making it easy to persist to a file store
  • Attachements can be stored as MemoryStreams making it easy to manipulate data within your application instead of on the file system
• On-the-fly attachment decoding, making your application faster and more efficient
• Synchronously or asynchronously retrieve mail
• Decrypt inbound Secure MIME (S/MIME) messages
• Progress event reports the current status of operations
• Send ANY command to the server using the exposed TCP connection
• Trace event exposes the underlying TCP communication

IMAP mail management

• Built-in editor lets you test the Imap component without writing any code!
• Fully-working Imap client sample included
• Secure (SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, PCT, TLS) or unencrypted TCP communications supported
• IMAP4 protocol support made simple - use the Imap component's intuitively named properties and methods and the appropriate IMAP4 command is sent to the server
• Rich object model:
  • Mailbox objects represent server-side mailbox objects, used to alter properties or inspect mailbox data
  • Multiple mailboxes exposed as ImapMailboxCollection objects,  used to manage mailboxes and perform bulk operations
  • Messages exposed as ImapMessage objects, used to change server-side message flags or get message data
  • Multiple messages exposed as ImapMessageCollection objects, used to manage messages and perform bulk operations
• Encrypt and Decrypt Secure MIME (S/MIME) messages
• Retrieve an entire message, headers only, attachments only, or any part desired!
• All synchronous methods of the Imap component have an asynchronous counterpart - use the asynchronous method to begin an action, and handle the completion of that action in the accompanying event
• Imap.Connection property exposes the TCP connection used to send data - use this object to get connection-level information, or perform a trace on all data passing through the connection.
• Rich event model makes it simple to trap connection and status changes

MIME and S/MIME encode and decode

• MessageStream class represents a MIME, Secure MIME (S/MIME), or non-MIME Internet email message
• On-the-fly encoding and decoding of MIME and S/MIME messages as they are created or read
• MessageStream class can be used independently as a general-purpose MIME and S/MIME encoder and decoder
• Rich object model represents each MIME attachment, part, and label element