In this article I will describe
how you can use C# and MailSystem.NET to read mails from any IMAP source,
including Gmail.
MailSystem.NET is a Open Source,
GNU Library General Public Licensed library for managing emails using SMTP,
POP3, IMAP and many more protocols.
I needed a component that will
read mails from an IMAP source and import them into Sitecore. So I built this
simple repository to get me all mails from a certain mailbox. Here is how I did
it.
First you need to copy
ActiveUp.Net.Common.dll and ActiveUp.Net.Imap4.dll from the MailSystem.NET
package to your /bin/ folder.
Reading from MailSystem.NET is
pretty straight forward:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using ActiveUp.Net.Mail;
namespace PT.MailIntegration.IMAP
{
public class MailRepository
{
private Imap4Client _client = null;
public MailRepository(string mailServer, int port,
bool ssl, string login, string password)
{
if (ssl)
Client.ConnectSsl(mailServer,
port);
else
Client.Connect(mailServer,
port);
Client.Login(login, password);
}
public IEnumerable<Message>
GetAllMails(string mailBox)
{
return GetMails(mailBox,
"ALL").Cast<Message>();
}
public IEnumerable<Message>
GetUnreadMails(string mailBox)
{
return GetMails(mailBox,
"UNSEEN").Cast<Message>();
}
protected Imap4Client Client
{
get
{
if (_client == null)
_client =
new Imap4Client();
return _client;
}
}
private MessageCollection GetMails(string mailBox,
string searchPhrase)
{
Mailbox mails =
Client.SelectMailbox(mailBox);
MessageCollection messages =
mails.SearchParse(searchPhrase);
return messages;
}
}
}
This repository can now be used
to read all mails or all unread mails from a mailbox. The constructor takes the
mail server name, port and SSL information, as well as the email address and
password of the account to read from. GetAllMails() read all mails from the
specified mailbox, while GetUnreadMails() reads all unread mails. Both
functions returns a list of Message objects. A Message is the complete email in
one object.
To read from a GMail mailbox you
need to connect using SSL on port 993:
using ActiveUp.Net.Mail;
using PT.MailIntegration.IMAP;
protected void TestMail()
{
MailRepository rep = new MailRepository("imap.gmail.com",
993, true, @"mailaddress@gmail.com", "password");
foreach (Message email in rep.GetUnreadMails("Inbox"))
{
Response.Write(string.Format("<p>{0}:
{1}</p><p>{2}</p>", email.From, email.Subject,
email.BodyHtml.Text));
if (email.Attachments.Count > 0)
{
foreach (MimePart attachment in email.Attachments)
{
Response.Write(string.Format("<p>Attachment:
{0} {1}</p>", attachment.ContentName,
attachment.ContentType.MimeType));
}
}
}
}
Other IMAP mail servers might not
need SSL, or requires another port number.
When calling GetUnreadMails(),
mails will be marked as read afterwards.
Please note that reading using
IMAP (at lest from GMail accounts) is very slow. Don’t be surprised if it takes
up to a minute to get 30 mails from a mailbox.
In this c# tutorial we learned
recived email from any IMAP using c#. I hope you enjoyed the article. If you
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