Receiving an email to a C# application

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Hie there
I found the stuff that's already on your website regarding receiving an email to a C# application. I was just wondering if you guys could help me.I would also like to retrieve the phone number as well as the contents of the email from which the email is being sent and update the SQl database directly.

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Thelma Madzikanda

Posted 14-Aug-12 7:17am

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Beerbeen 5-Jun-17 6:13am

Here is how you can receive an email with C# using this C# PopClient class.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-08-14T07:36:00

There is no such thing as "receiving e-mail". Why do you think someone will send a e-mail to your application? You application cannot be the member of the e-mail delivery chain unless it is a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA). Perhaps you first need to read on how e-mail works, to understand what exactly do you want.

Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail#Operation_overview[^] (first of all pay attention for this),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_delivery_agent[^].

Maybe, you only need to write an application to connect to existing POP3 or IMAP server? Then see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop3[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP[^].

If so, look here:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?doctypeid=1&q=%28POP3+OR+IMAP%29+client+%22C%23%22[^].

—SA