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Understanding the Insides of the IMAP Mail Protocol: Part 3

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This article describes the receiving mail process in IMAP for beginners of the mail protocol.
The purpose of this article is to explore the inside of the IMAP protocol and show you how to implement it with C#.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using HigLabo.Net.Mail;

namespace HigLabo.Net.Imap
{
    /// <summary>
    /// 
    /// </summary>
    public class CapabilityResult : ImapCommandResult
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// 
        /// </summary>
        public ReadOnlyCollection<String> Features { get; private set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="tag"></param>
        /// <param name="text"></param>
        public CapabilityResult(String tag, String text)
            : base(tag, text)
        {
            String s = "* Capability ";
            if (text.StartsWith(s, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == false)
            { throw new MailClientException(); }

            String line = "";
            using (StringReader sr = new StringReader(text))
            {
                line = sr.ReadLine();
            }
            Int32 index = s.Length;
            String ss = line.Substring(index, line.Length - index);
            List<String> l = new List<string>();
            foreach (var el in ss.Split(' '))
            {
                if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(el) == true) { continue; }
                l.Add(el);
            }
            this.Features = new ReadOnlyCollection<string>(l);
        }
    }
}

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