SmallPOP – A Hackish Implementation of The POP RFC in .NET

SmallPOP – a hackish implementation of the POP (Post Office Protocol) RFC in .NET 

This page contains the details for the C# version of SmallPOP, a quick and dirty component for retreiving e-mail from POP servers.
Author: Joel Pobar (joel at collude.com.au)

If you're looking for a more commercial orientated .NET POP component – check out: http://www.dart.com/dotnet/mail.asp - it has a lot of cool features that arn't found in this source code. I've never used it myself, but I've heard it's quite good. It can also send via SMTP - which is a great benefit and can decode message attachements.

May 2003

What it can do:

• Connect to POP servers, authenticate, and download mail
• Give a complete mail server unique id list to compare with later on (figuring out what new e-mails have hit the server)
• Delete emails
• Grab the headers only (using the TOP POP command)

What it can't do:

• No asynchronous support
• No direct access to the network stream
• Unable to download binary attachments properly
• No mixing and matching of email data

What it may be able to do in the future:

• I'd like to extend this further - if you feel like you need a complete asychronous, well coded POP/IMAP component, bounce me e-mail.

Downloads

• SmallPOP [version 1.0.0.1]  .NET 1.1 runtime (source code included)

  Late May 2003
  - Simple POP support. Untested really – feedback is required.

Please send me comments and feedback!