Knowledge Base

I'm getting 'CreateObject Failed' (or 'Server.CreateObject failed') error. What's wrong?

Most likely, your application powered by MailBee Objects doesn't have sufficient permissions to MailBee.dll or MailBee Objects installation was damaged for some reason. If your application is an ASP a...

How can I send e-mail through Gmail with ActiveX version (VB6, classic ASP)

Gmail accepts only secure SSL connections, and thus you should use MailBee SMTP component with MailBee SSL/SMIME component. Visual Basic 6 / VBScript: Set SMTP = CreateObject("MailBee.SMTP") set ...

What do I need to send and receive e-mails?

To send and receive e-mail messages in your application, you need MailBee Objects or MailBee.NET Objects which are interfaces (API) between your application and a mail server, allowing sending, receiv...

Getting notifications about new messages in mailbox (IMAP IDLE and polling)

If your application powered by MailBee.NET Objects or MailBee Objects needs to learn about new messages in mailbox immediately as they arrive, there are two approaches possible: waiting for notificati...

Can MailBee and MailBee.NET components work with MS Exchange server?

Yes, you can use both MailBee (ActiveX) and MailBee.NET components to send e-mails to Exchange server or receive e-mails and folders from this server. WebMail Pro application can also access mail on E...

Can MailBee SMTP (ActiveX) send messages through Hotmail.com/Live.com?

Live.com allows using SSL connections only. You should make sure you can check mail via Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird and then apply the same settings to MailBee. The following link describes...

How to download emails with attachments

When you download message with MailBee (ActiveX) or MailBee.NET components (e.g. with POP3.RetrieveSingleMessage for ActiveX or POP3.DownloadEntireMessage for .NET), you'll get messages with attachmen...

What's the difference between MailBee.NET Objects and MailBee Objects?

MailBee Objects is a complete set of components required to create and send messages to SMTP servers and receive, parse and delete email messages from POP3 servers. MailBee components can be used in A...

Install MailBee Objects ActiveX on Windows Vista, 2008, Seven

You must run MailBee.exe from a local drive, not a shared one. Otherwise, you may get "the application was unable to start correctly" error. Also, if UAC is enabled (by default it is), only Adminis...

MSG files created by Outlook Converter behave differently from those created by Outlook

In some situations, MSG files generated by MailBee.NET Objects can behave a bit differently from those generated by Microsoft Outlook. In such cases, it may be a good idea to have them rebuilt by Outl...