Good POP3 client for the .NET platform?

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technicaljoe

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#66920 25-Aug-2010 13:55

Currently playing around with OpenPOP.NET, straight-forward enough, but having difficulties with using it in conjunction with unicode characters...

Anyone know of any good POP3 client for the .NET platform?

As always, appreciate your time and thoughts :)

- Joseph

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#372684 25-Aug-2010 14:25

What exactly are you trying to achieve? log on to a POP email server and retrieve emails from within .NET code?

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technicaljoe

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#372709 25-Aug-2010 15:08

Short story, yes :)

I'm building a service that will suck in emails and then dissect them into something more useful. Being able to display the correct message body part is one of my requirements. A little bit stuck with getting unicode to show correctly at the moment...

The emails bit is only a small part of the project, so I don't want to spend heaps of time on it... So, just wondering if anyone know any better POP3 library, commercial ones are fine too.

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#372815 25-Aug-2010 19:06

Avoid the 4AspNet POP3 component. It worked well at the beginning, but now it sometimes adds random characters to emails it downloads.

I'm in the process of changing it, so I'm keen to also hear recommendations on pop3 components.

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#372918 26-Aug-2010 01:17

Have you seen the these "threads" on stackoverflow?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44383/reading-email-using-pop3-in-c
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26606/free-pop3-net-library

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#373001 26-Aug-2010 09:48

Have you looked at http://www.nsoftware.com yet?

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#373031 26-Aug-2010 10:34

I've used the POP component from http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ in the past with good results.

technicaljoe

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#373328 26-Aug-2010 20:01

Thanks guys :)

I have read those StackOverflow links and I'm evaluating OpenPOP.NET at the moment.

I haven't tried NSoftware or Chilkatsoft yet, anyone has any experience with them? (I'm trying to figure out which ones to invest my time on for evaluation)