Provides properties and methods for connecting to a POP3 server and downloading and deleting e-mail messages from a user account inbox.

For a list of all members of this type, see Pop3 Members.

System.Object
   MailBee.InternalUse.LengthyTaskEventSink
      MailBee.InternalUse.SocketEventSink
         MailBee.InternalUse.SessionProtocolEventSink
            MailBee.InternalUse.Pop3EventSink
               MailBee.Pop3Mail.Pop3

Thread Safety

Public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

Remarks

You can perform the following operations using this class:

• Download entire messages with body and attachments
• Download message headers (and optionally, the part of message bodies)
• Delete messages from the POP3 server
• Send user-defined commands to the POP3 server
• Login to a user account using a number of authentication methods (including secure methods)
• Take advantage of POP3 pipelining which dramatically speeds up batch retrieval or deleting messages
• Collect inbox statistics like number of messages and total size of all messages
• Download entire messages or message headers with a single line of code (using static methods)
• Establish secure connection with TLS/SSL enabled POP3 server
• Establish connection via a proxy server (SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxy are supported)

Example

This sample connects to a POP3 server, logs in using the most secure method supported by this server, downloads headers for the first 10 messages in the inbox, and prints From:, To:, and Subject: field values for every message into Console.

[C#]
// To use the code below, import MailBee namespaces at the top of your code
using MailBee;
using MailBee.Pop3Mail;
using MailBee.Mime;

// The actual code (put it into a method of your class).
Pop3 pop = new Pop3();
pop.Connect("mail.domain.com");
pop.Login("jdoe", "secret");
MailMessageCollection msgs = pop.DownloadMessageHeaders(1, 10);
foreach (MailMessage msg in msgs)
{
    Console.WriteLine("From: " + msg.From.Email + ", To: " + msg.To.AsString + ", Subject: " + msg.Subject);
}
pop.Disconnect();

[Visual Basic]
' To use the code below, import MailBee namespaces at the top of your code
Imports MailBee
Imports MailBee.Pop3Mail
Imports MailBee.Mime

' The actual code (put it into a method of your class).
Dim pop As New Pop3
pop.Connect("mail.domain.com")
pop.Login("jdoe", "secret")
Dim msgs As MailMessageCollection = pop.DownloadMessageHeaders(1, 10)
For Each msg As MailMessage In msgs
    Console.WriteLine("From: " & msg.From.Email & ", To: " & msg.To.AsString & ", Subject: " & msg.Subject)
Next
pop.Disconnect()

Requirements

Namespace: MailBee.Pop3Mail

Assembly: MailBee.NET (in MailBee.NET.dll)

See Also

Pop3 Members | MailBee.Pop3Mail Namespace

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