How To Send Received Email To my Desktop Application in Vb.net (Or C sharp)

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Hello .

I am developing a Desktop Application using VB.NET.

My Client has a deposit account in a Bank.

My Client Receive in his Email Account (Email Account in the website of his Bank) Every Operation made ( Input/Output of money ) .

In my application , I have a Table Called Bank_Situation in witch I save The operations of Input/Output of money made in his account and Calculate the Balance. But this is performed manually.

I want get these Emails from his account and Update my Table (Bank_Situation) Dynamically in my Desktop application.

Any one has an Idea ? ( In VB.NET or C sharp )
Thanks in Advance.

Posted 18-Sep-13 4:41am

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[no name] 18-Sep-13 10:52am

You would need to check with the bank to see if they have an API or similar that you could use. We would have no idea since we don't know anything about this bank.

Member 10267912 18-Sep-13 11:16am

My Client has an Email Account and a Password. Could we use this Email and password to access his Inbox from my application ? For example there would be a text box in witch you type The Bank Website or IP, a text box for the Email and a Third one for the password. Then A list box or a grid filled by the emails downloaded after clicking on button for retrieving Emails.

[no name] 18-Sep-13 11:29am

I would have no idea if you could do that or not. I do not know anything about this bank you are talking about, what interface they use, how they store their email, what email server they use or anything else. You need to ask them about it not someone that does not know anything about their internal process.

Member 10267912 18-Sep-13 12:04pm

I made researches I found that I need :
1- A POP3 server address for example in Yahoo it's: "pop.mail.yahoo.com" or "plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com".
2- It requires SSL connection on X port. For yahoo : The port is 995
3- Email address as the user name for user authentication.

So Do I need the POP3 Server and the SSL connection Port nnumber of the Bank's website ?

Member 10267912 18-Sep-13 11:20am

At this moment I just need to download these Emails. After this done, I will try to figure out how to update my Bank_Situation Table in my application problematically using these Emails. I am not asking for a complete code , I need just hints that could guide me to achieve What I am looking for . Thanks for your comment :)

nv3 18-Sep-13 11:41am

In your question you state: "e-mail account in the website of his bank". So that is not a normal POP3 e-mail account. You have to start an https request to the bank's webserver with the right credentials and then interpret the page contents that's coming as reply. And if I were the client I would not give you my credentials anyhow as you would have full control over his account then.

Member 10267912 18-Sep-13 14:13pm

Is there in solution in this case? His bank sends him SMS to his phone number too. Could I get those SMSs ?

MCY 18-Sep-13 16:06pm

first you should learn whether bank mail account has pop3 or imap support. If yes, well, you can get mails in a pop3 server as follows: Retrieve Mail From a POP3 Server Using C#[^]
But this requires your customer's credentials, therefore my recommendation is that, if possible, he should define a rule that every mail from the bank should be forwarded to your address. Then, you could use a basic string manipulations (regex or otherwise) to search for your text.
For SMS scraping, you may use GSMComm http://www.scampers.org/steve/sms/libraries.htm#gsmcomm[^] but that would require physical connection to the clients phone

Member 10267912 18-Sep-13 17:37pm

Thanks MCY for your comment.
I have a question; what do you mean by Customer's credentials. He has only Email address and Password. That's the only way he get into his account.
Anyways I will first check if it's about a POP3 Server or IMAP . If yes things would be easier.
Thanks again.

MCY 19-Sep-13 4:33am

user name and password are the credentials. if you have them, you can control his account.

Member 10267912 19-Sep-13 20:24pm

I will not have his email and password , there will be fields in witch he insert them , So none could control his account. My question was about the technical side of the problem, say I would make it for myself. Privacy would be managed later.
Thanks for you reply : )

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