email client using C#

Question

Hi All,

i want to build an email client in my website project. ie i should be able to send and receive emails from/to any account without accessing the particular website of the email providers like yahoo, google, hotmail etc.

my email client does the functions similar to outlook express.

I am using ASP .NET 2 (.NET 2005 VERSION )  with C#
pls note that .net 2003 uses System.Web package to handle emails but .net 2005 uses system.Net class.

i know how to send mails from an smtp enabled email account (like gmail, yahoo bizmail etc) using C#. i used System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class for that.
Now i want to build the mail receiving mechanism. i dont see a pop3Client class similar to SmtpClient class.
so how can i do this? pls help me . pls tell me where should i start , which resources to reference etc.
and if u have any code snippet , pls post it.

hoping for a satisfying reply.

Regards,
sajitha

Answer 1

Hi,

Here's a sample mail checker program in code project. HTH. mail checker 1.0




cheers,

Paul June A. Domag

Answer 2

These links are useful to solve this problem ...

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4071/

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/pop3client.asp

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/mailechecker.asp