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C# - Retrieve Email from Hotmail/MSN Live Account

Hotmail/MSN Live POP3 server address is "pop3.live.com". It requires SSL connection on 995 port, and you should use your Hotmail/MSN email address as the user name for user authentication. For example: your email is "liveid@hotmail.com", and then the user name should be "liveid@hotmail.com".

The following example codes demonstrate how to retrieve email from Hotmail/MSN Live POP3 server.

Installation

Before you can use the following sample codes, you should download the EAGetMail Installer and install it on your machine at first.

Add Reference of EAGetMail to Visual Stuido C#.NET Project

To use EAGetMail POP3 & IMAP Component in your project, the first step is "Add reference of EAGetMail to your project". Please create/open your project with Visual Studio.NET, then choose menu->"Project"->"Add Reference"->".NET"->"Browse...", and choose the EAGetMail{version}.dll from your disk, click "Open"->"OK", the reference of EAGetMail will be added to your project, and you can start to use EAGetMail to retrieve email and parse email in your project.

add reference in c#

Because EAGetMail has separate builds for .Net Framework, please refer to the following table and choose the correct dll.

Separate builds of run-time assembly for .Net Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 and .Net Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5.

File .NET Framework Version
EAGetMail.dll Built with .NET Framework 1.1
It requires .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.5 or later version.
EAGetMail20.dll Built with .NET Framework 2.0
It requires .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5 or later version.
EAGetMail35.dll Built with .NET Framework 3.5
It requires .NET Framework 3.5 or later version.
EAGetMail40.dll Built with .NET Framework 4.0
It requires .NET Framework 4.0 or later version.
EAGetMailCF20.dll Built with .NET Compact Framework 2.0
It requires .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5 or later version.
EAGetMailCF35.dll Built with .NET Compact Framework 3.5
It requires .NET Compact Framework 3.5 or later version.


// The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from Hotmail/MSN Live server
// To get full sample projects, please download and install EAGetMail on your machine.
// To run it correctly, please change email server, user, password, folder, file name value to yours

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

// Add EAGetMail namespace
using EAGetMail;

namespace receiveemail
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create a folder named "inbox" under current directory
            // to save the email retrieved.
            string curpath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
            string mailbox = String.Format("{0}\\inbox", curpath);

            // If the folder is not existed, create it.
            if (!Directory.Exists(mailbox))
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(mailbox);
            }

            // Hotmail/MSN POP3 server is "pop3.live.com"
            MailServer oServer = new MailServer("pop3.live.com",
                        "liveid@hotmail.com", "yourpassword", ServerProtocol.Pop3 );
            MailClient oClient = new MailClient("TryIt");

            // Set SSL connection
            oServer.SSLConnection = true;

            // Set 995 SSL port
            oServer.Port = 995;

            try
            {
                oClient.Connect(oServer);
                MailInfo[] infos = oClient.GetMailInfos();
                for (int i = 0; i < infos.Length; i++)
                {
                    MailInfo info = infos[i];
                    Console.WriteLine("Index: {0}; Size: {1}; UIDL: {2}",
                        info.Index, info.Size, info.UIDL);

                    // Receive email from Hotmail/MSN POP3 server
                    Mail oMail = oClient.GetMail(info);

                    Console.WriteLine("From: {0}", oMail.From.ToString());
                    Console.WriteLine("Subject: {0}\r\n", oMail.Subject);

                    // Generate an email file name based on date time.
                    System.DateTime d = System.DateTime.Now;
                    System.Globalization.CultureInfo cur = new
                        System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");
                    string sdate = d.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss", cur);
                    string fileName = String.Format("{0}\\{1}{2}{3}.eml",
                        mailbox, sdate, d.Millisecond.ToString("d3"), i);

                    // Save email to local disk
                    oMail.SaveAs(fileName, true);

                    // Mark email as deleted in Hotmail/MSN Live account.
                    oClient.Delete(info);
                }

                // Quit and pure emails marked as deleted from Hotmail/MSN Live POP3 server.
                oClient.Quit();
            }
            catch (Exception ep)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ep.Message);
            }

        }
    }
}

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