Authors: Danny Ryan, Tommy Ryan
Article published January 02, 2002 from the ASP.NET 1.x library
Key Topics: .NET Framework
Rating: 4.0 of 5.0 (based on 10 ratings as of July '05)
Abstract:The POP3 (Post Office Protocol – Version 3) standard has been well-accepted as the standard for email clients to use when receiving incoming emails. This article will create a simple POP3 ASP.NET client from scratch using the TcpClient and NetworkStream Framework Classes that are available in .NET Framework. In this article, we will unveil the details of how to control our interaction with the POP3 Server. We will show you how to create a TCP Client that uses sockets to control the communication with the POP3 server. We will use this client to issue the commands necessary to get a list of emails on the POP3 Server, view the details of a specified email, and delete a specified email. You will find that the complexity of socket communication is encapsulated in the TcpClient and NetworkStream Framework Classes, but we are still left with the parsing of the responses we receive.
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Receiving Pop 3 Emails From an ASP.NET Page.
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