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Determine mailbox access protocol using C#

Hi All, I racked my brain about how can i determine what protocol is used by a mailbox. I'm creating a simple C# application that get an email adress and read all the mails, first of all i have to know how to access to this mailbox (which protocol to use) - i'm looking for a way to check what it the appropriate protocol (and please don'...

Dynamic IMAP/Pop3 Email Address Creation

I have a requirement in my project to create dynamic email address on the fly. For example, similar to flickr has the option of uploading photos (or blogger.com has an option of rececing blog posts in predefined email addresses). The email address can be like "[email protected]", once this email address is created what eve...

Question about POP3 message termination octet

This is from the POP3 RFC. "Responses to certain commands are multi-line. In these cases, which are clearly indicated below, after sending the first line of the response and a CRLF, any additional lines are sent, each terminated by a CRLF pair. When all lines of the response have been sent, a final line is sent, consisting...

Counting the number of messages in an e-mail account with python

Hi, is there any way, in Python, to have access to an e-mail account (I'll need this for gmail but better if any works) and be able to see the number of messages in the inbox (maybe even unread messages only)? Thank you. ...

Re processing emails on error from pop3 account

Hi! I have an application that read emails from a pop3 account. When I connect to the account I download all new emails and process body and attachments. If there is an error processing one of the emails I would like to download it again next time I connect but since I only get new emails and the failed one was already downloaded I don...

Automated fake mailbox

Hello, i'm about to start the development of a new automated-email application. The idea is that customers (or other external users) send emails to a mailbox and then an automated process will read them, extract their information and insert it into some database. It's a requirement that the emails have an standard format in order to be p...

System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient cannot authenticate against a POP3 server, right?

One of our customer seems to have a very old email system, those that ask you to authenticate to the POP3 server before allowing you to send messages through the SMTP server. Regrettably, we have to believe in what our customer tell us for we cannot access their facilities. But as far as I remember, years ago there were mail systems that...

How to read any email account from a domain using C#?

I guess this is sort of two questions that are tied together. Related questions have discussed how to read and parse email using pop3. I need to be able to do this, however, I want this to be able to work with any email address I need. I am trying to allow users to submit content by emailing it to a unique email address, which will aut...

best way to receive email for multiple domains with multiple user accouts into rails app

hi all I have a cms that runs on multiple domains and therefore needs to pull emails into the app for multiple email addresses. I have setup rackspace email for a hosted email solution and am trying to find the best way to pull the emails into my app from all the mailboxes. Should i be using pop3 or imap ? should i be pulling into a ...

How to safely identify a DSN (delivery status notification) message

I'm fetching emails from a POP3 server and I'd like to make a difference between a regular email and DSN (Delivery Status Notification) / NDR (Non-Delivery Report/Receipt) messages. What is the best/safest way to identify those messages? Are there any particular message-headers I should be looking for? Thanks in advance! ...

Email client library for C

Hi all I'm in the process of building an email client for an embedded device. We have chosen the University of Washingtons c-client reference implementation as our interface into POP3, IMAP and SMTP servers. Whilst it is working well for us, implementation is taking a long time due to relatively old coding standards and lack of detailed...

Suggestions for a .NET Pop3 Library

I am looking for a .NET Pop3 Email Library. I need be able to read from a Pop3 account where I'll copy all the mail to a local database. A paid library is fine I found aspnetPop3 do anyone know if this any good Any help would be a great help ...

.Net POP3 client

Possible Duplicate: Reading Email using Pop3 in C# .net has a SMTP client for sending mail but no pop3 client for reading mail. Ive used WEBDAV before, but I really want a simple pop3 or imap client thats stable I know there seems to be 10000 of examples, but why no offical .net client if they made a SMTP client any thoughts...

Fetching mail from a POP3 server using php

I am trying to fetch a mail from POP3 (I am using POP3 mail server and I am trying to fetch the mail content and store into a database table for my project.), but I can't find any PHP script for that, all are only for IMAP. Do you know how to fetch mail from a POP3 server? Thanks. ...

Can you determine if a an email has attachments from just the email header

Can you determine if a an email has attachments from just the email header. If I call the Pop3 command "TOP 1 0" can I determine from the data returned if message has attachments. If not is there anyway of find this out with downloading the whole message and counting the attachments. ...

javax.mail blocking while trying to connect

Hello, I'm confronted to something disturbing. I'm setting up a POP account receiver, and it looks like it's working in some cases. When I connect to my server with the port 110, it's working OK (just have an error message when trying to connect with SSL, which is normal). But when I try the port 995, which should be working with SSL, ...

Email Headers: Anything to indicate file size?

I need to know the file size of email attachments before downloading them. Is there anything in email headers that can help me? ...

Programatically Getting POP3 Message Unique Id and Message Size

I need to access a POP3 email account and obtain the the list of messages' unique id and its corresponding file size. I'm using CodeIgniter and have access to Zend libraries. Trying to do something similar to the LIST command. Ideas? ...

Pop3 and gmail email deleted after download

Hello I Am writing Pop3 client for gmail. The problem is that when the email is downloaded then it deletes from pop3 server. I have tried sending RSET command to server but it dose not work. Do i have to send RSET just before disconnecting or after downloading each mail? ...

How can I find the encoding of a mail message?

I'm downloading a message from gmail using pop3. When the message is in ansi every thing is OK but when there is another language I get gibberish Any ideas? Thanks Asaf ...