A Free C# library for connecting to and retrieving

email from a POP3 Mail server.

POP3 Mailservers are probably the most common type of mail server used by ISP’s.

This free mail server client allows developers to retieve email from any mail server the user has access to. The Client currently provides the following functionality:

  • Retrieve      Messages (With Attachments), in full from a Mail Server.
  • Retrieve      Messages as a queryable object (Without Attachments) from a Mail Server.
  • Delete      Messages from a Mail Server.
  • Retrieve      Headers as queryable objects from a Mail Server.

Please note that the free version is still in development. I’d be grateful for any bugs, but i can make no guarentees as to when they may be fixed. Please contact the author if you are interested in a version which is not time limited. POP3 Client Examples:

1.) Connect to a POP3 Server and get the number of messages on   the server
Spartan.Net.Mail.POP3 pop3   = new Spartan.Net.Mail.POP3();

pop3.Connect(“YOUR.POP3.HERE”, 110,   “user”, “password”);
int newMessages = 0;

int readMessages = 0;

pop3.ListMessages(out   readMessages, out newMessages);

pop3.Disconnect();

 

2.) Connect to a POP3 and Retrieve each message as a string
Spartan.Net.Mail.POP3 pop3   = new Spartan.Net.Mail.POP3();

pop3.Connect(“YOUR.POP3.HERE”,   110, “USER”, “PASSWORD”);

int   newMessages = 0;

int   readMessages = 0;

pop3.ListMessages(out   readMessages, out newMessages);

for (int i =   1; i <= newMessages; i++)

{

string   message = “”;

pop3.RetrieveMessage(i,   out message);

}

pop3.Disconnect();

Download the Library from here

Please note that all code and examples are provided “as is”, without any kind of warranty or guarentee as to their purpose.