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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.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using HigLabo.Net.Mail;

namespace HigLabo.Net.Smtp
{
    /// Represent an line of smtp command result responsed from server.
    /// <summary>
    /// Represent an line of smtp command result responsed from server.
    /// </summary>
    public class SmtpCommandResultLine
    {
		private class RegexList
		{
			public static readonly Regex SmtpResultLine = new Regex(@"(?<StatusCode>[0-9]{3})(?<HasNextLine>[\s-]{0,1})(?<Message>.*)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
		}
        private Boolean _InvalidFormat = false;
        private Int32 _StatusCodeNumber = 0;
        private SmtpCommandResultCode _StatusCode = SmtpCommandResultCode.None;
        private Boolean _HasNextLine = false;
        private String _Message = "";
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
        public Boolean InvalidFormat
        {
            get { return this._InvalidFormat; }
        }
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
        public Int32 CodeNumber
        {
            get { return this._StatusCodeNumber; }
        }
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
        public SmtpCommandResultCode StatusCode
        {
            get { return this._StatusCode; }
        }
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
        public Boolean HasNextLine
        {
            get { return this._HasNextLine; }
        }
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
        public String Message
        {
            get { return this._Message; }
        }
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="line"></param>
        public SmtpCommandResultLine(String line)
        {
            Match m = RegexList.SmtpResultLine.Match(line);
            this._InvalidFormat = !Int32.TryParse(m.Groups["StatusCode"].Value, out this._StatusCodeNumber);
            this._StatusCode = (SmtpCommandResultCode)this._StatusCodeNumber;
            this._HasNextLine = m.Groups["HasNextLine"].Value == "-";
            this._Message = m.Groups["Message"].Value;
        }
    }
}

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CEO TinyBetter, Inc
Japan Japan
I'm a CEO of TinyBetter, Inc in Japan.

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