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Understanding the Insides of the POP3 Mail Protocol: Part 2

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This article describes the mail sending process for beginners of the mail protocol.
The purpose of this article is to explore the insides of the POP3 protocol and show you how to implement it with C#.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using HigLabo.Net.Mail;

namespace HigLabo.Net
{
    /// Represent Content-Type as class.
    /// <summary>
    /// Represent Content-Type as class.
    /// </summary>
    public class ContentType : InternetTextMessage.Field
    {
        private List<InternetTextMessage.Field> _Fields = new List<InternetTextMessage.Field>();
        /// <summary>
        /// Get field collection.
        /// </summary>
        public List<InternetTextMessage.Field> Fields
        {
            get { return this._Fields; }
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Get or set name.
        /// </summary>
        public String Name
        {
            get
            {
                InternetTextMessage.Field f = InternetTextMessage.Field.FindField(this._Fields, "Name");
                if (f == null)
                {
                    return "";
                }
				return MailParser.DecodeFromMailHeaderLine(f.Value);
			}
            set
            {
                InternetTextMessage.Field f = InternetTextMessage.Field.FindField(this._Fields, "Name");
                if (f == null)
                {
                    f = new InternetTextMessage.Field("Name", value);
                    this._Fields.Add(f);
                }
                else
                {
                    f.Value = value;
                }
            }
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Get or set boundary.
        /// </summary>
        public String Boundary
        {
            get
            {
                InternetTextMessage.Field f = InternetTextMessage.Field.FindField(this._Fields, "Boundary");
                if (f == null)
                {
                    return "";
                }
                return f.Value;
            }
            set
            {
                InternetTextMessage.Field f = InternetTextMessage.Field.FindField(this._Fields, "Boundary");
                if (f == null)
                {
                    f = new InternetTextMessage.Field("Boundary", value);
                    this._Fields.Add(f);
                }
                else
                {
                    f.Value = value;
                }
            }
        }
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="value"></param>
        public ContentType(String value) : 
            base("Content-Type", value)
        {
            this.Value = value;
        }
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="value"></param>
		/// <param name="fields"></param>
        public ContentType(String value, InternetTextMessage.Field[] fields) :
            base("Content-Type", value)
        {
            this.Value = value;
            for (int i = 0; i < fields.Length; i++)
            {
                this._Fields.Add(fields[i]);
            }
        }
    }
}

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