How to extract photos from email?

Question

I have a need to poll a mail server and then extract a photo that is either embedded or attached to the email message.

The goal is to extract the photo and save it to a disk file. The desired functionality is much like emailing a photo from your phone to Twitter, Flickr, etc.

Any insights/advice appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are polling via POP3 then link text will be useful.

Any way, there is the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage class. It has Attachments property at least.

Answer 2

I have used this in the past: Dart Power TCP. It is NOT a free product but it works well. I was able to check and parse POP email messages without too much trouble. I think you could grab email attachments and/or get image URLs out of HTML emails with this tool.