Parsing Emails in C# using POP3Client

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Each user forwards the email to the other user like this:-

User1 -> User2 -> User3 -> User4

How do I retrieve the origin (User1) from pop3 client in C#

Thanks in advance.

Posted 27-Jan-14 2:10am

Apurva Kunkulol

Updated 28-Jan-14 5:47am

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Richard MacCutchan 28-Jan-14 11:54am

If you just get someone to forward a few messages to you then you can clearly see the difficulty of finding this information.

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2014-01-27T02:25:00

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No, that's not part of the email headers, and thus a reliable mechanism cannot be established.
When you forward a message, the mail client typically adds a "FWD: " or something like that to the subject line (can be localized: "WG"), it may add a human-readable representation of some headers (FROM, TO, DATE, SUBJECT) to the message body. And note: also that may be localised...

Posted 27-Jan-14 2:25am

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Apurva Kunkulol 27-Jan-14 9:20am

Thanks for the information Bernhard. Could you post a sample line of code depicting the same?(i.e which part do you exactly mean by message body)

Matt T Heffron 28-Jan-14 17:43pm

+5 to counter unknown 1

Apurva Kunkulol 29-Jan-14 2:47am

If (in Gmail) I check the "Show Original" option, it shows the entire mail text/body that contains the From tag but how to extract it from that?