Email Parsing With OpenPop.Pop3 (OpenPop.NET)

Article Overview

• Background
• Pre-requisites
• How to perform email parsing
  
• Connect with Server
  
• Authenticate to Server
  
• Go through all email
  
• Get email content
  
• Process email content
  
• Whole example together
• References, Page load, Model, Table
  
• Get all emails and set in table
  
• Get email content
• Set email content in table
  
• Output
• Summary

Background

 

There was a requirement where I had to read emails from an email box, and after that I had to process each email to generate a record into the database. There are various libraries using which you can perform email parsing.

 

OpenPop.NET is a robust open source POP3 client and MIME parser written in C#. Here, I am putting all the key details at one place with entire examples.

 

Prerequisites

 

You MUST have basic knowledge of C#, ASP .NET, and Email Parsing.

 

Download “OpenPop.dll” from OpenPop.NET.

How to perform email parsing

 

There are mainly five steps to perform email parsing:

• Connect with Server
• Authenticate to Server
• Go through all email
• Get email content
• Process email content

Now, let us see in detail.

 

Connect with Server

 

You need host (server) name, port number, etc. details to connect with the POP3 email server.

 

objPOP3Client.Connect(host, port, useSsl);

 

Authenticate to Server

 

Once the server is connected you have to authenticate it using email (username) and password. This is your email box login details.

 

objPOP3Client.Authenticate(user, password);

 

Go through all email

 

After successful authentication you have to loop through each email one by one.

 

objMessage = objPOP3Client.GetMessage(intMessageNumber);

 

Process email content

 

Now, you can process email content for your own process. For, example insert email message into the database for further processing.

 

Complete example

 

For the complete example, I have prepared and uploaded a cs file which contains all the code.

• References, Page load, Model, Table
• Get all emails and set in table
• Get email content
• Set email content in table
  
• Output

References, Page load, Model, Table

 

 

 

 

 

Get all emails and set in table

 

 

Get email content

 

 

Set email content in table

 

 

Output

 

 

Summary

 

Now, I believe you will be able to perform email parsing with OpenPop.Pop3 (OpenPop.NET).