Retrieving email from POP3 server using VB.NET

Retrieving email from POP3 server using VB.NET

This article will demonstrate how using the Email Factory for .NET Pop component you can retrieve emails from a POP3 server using VB.NET. To see what else Email Factory for .NET has to offer Download a FREE 30 day Email Factory for .NET Evaluation.

Overview of Pop

The Email Factory for .NET Pop component provides methods for communicating with an POP3 server. Using the Email Factory for .NET components retrieving email from a POP3 or IMAP server is a very simple task. For the purposes of this article we will focus on using the POP3 protocol. Details of using the IMAP protocol to retrieve email are very much the same, the main difference being that the Pop class is used instead of the Imap class.

The process for establishing an interactive session with an POP3 server using the Email Factory for .NET component is as follows:

1. Creating a new Pop instance with events
2. Establishing a connection
3. Retrieving one or more Email messages
4. Saving attachments to disk
5. Reading message attributes
6. Releasing a connection

Each of these processes is described in the sections below.

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