The following c# example codes demonstrate how to retrieve email from Hotmail/Outlook/Office 365 IMAP4 server.
Hotmail, Outlook.com, Live User
Hotmail/Outlook POP3 server address is pop3.live.com
. It requires SSL connection
on 995 port; Hotmail/Outlook IMAP4 server address is imap-mail.outlook.com
. It requires SSL connection
on 993 port;
You should use your Hotmail/Outlook email address as the user name
for user authentication. For example: your email is liveid@hotmail.com
, and then
the user name should be liveid@hotmail.com
.
Server | Port | SSL | Protocol |
pop3.live.com | 995 | SSL required | Pop3 |
imap-mail.outlook.com | 993 | SSL required | Imap4 |
Office 365
First of all, you should go to Office 365 Outlook
-> Options
-> See All Options
-> Account
-> My Account
-> Settings for POP, IMAP, and SMTP access
.
You will get your Office 365 POP3/IMAP4 server address and port. The default POP3 server is outlook.office365.com
on SSL 995 port;
IMAP4 server is outlook.office365.com
on SSL 993 port.
Server | Port | SSL | Protocol |
outlook.office365.com | 995 | SSL required | Pop3 |
outlook.office365.com | 993 | SSL required | Imap4 |
Sections:
Before you can use the following sample codes, you should download the EAGetMail Installer and install it on your machine at first. Full sample projects are included in this installer.
Install from NuGet
You can also install the run-time assembly by NuGet. Run the following command in the NuGet Package Manager Console:
Install-Package EAGetMail
Note
If you install it by NuGet, no sample projects are installed, only .NET assembly is installed.
To use EAGetMail POP3 & IMAP Component in your project, the first step is “Add reference
of EAGetMail to your project”. Please create or open your project with Visual Studio,
then go to menu
-> Project
-> Add Reference
-> .NET
-> Browse...
, and
select EAGetMail{version}.dll
from installation path, click Open
-> OK
, the reference
will be added to the project, you can start to use it to
retrieve email and parse email in your project.
Because EAGetMail has separate builds for .Net Framework, please refer to the following table and choose the correct dll.
Separate builds of run-time assembly for .Net Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 and .Net Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5.
File | .NET Framework Version |
EAGetMail.dll | Built with .NET Framework 1.1
It requires .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.5 or later version. |
EAGetMail20.dll | Built with .NET Framework 2.0
It requires .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5 or later version. |
EAGetMail35.dll | Built with .NET Framework 3.5
It requires .NET Framework 3.5 or later version. |
EAGetMail40.dll | Built with .NET Framework 4.0
It requires .NET Framework 4.0 or later version. |
EAGetMail45.dll | Built with .NET Framework 4.5
It requires .NET Framework 4.5 or later version. |
EAGetMailCF20.dll | Built with .NET Compact Framework 2.0
It requires .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5 or later version. |
EAGetMailCF35.dll | Built with .NET Compact Framework 3.5
It requires .NET Compact Framework 3.5 or later version. |
The following example codes demonstrate how to download emails from Hotmail/Outlook/Office365 account using IMAP4 protocol.
In order to run it correctly, please change email server
, user
, password
, folder
, file name
value to yours.
Note
To get full sample projects, please download and install EAGetMail on your machine.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using EAGetMail; // add EAGetMail namespace
namespace receiveemail
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create a folder named "inbox" under current directory
// to save the email retrieved.
string curpath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
string mailbox = String.Format("{0}\\inbox", curpath);
// If the folder is not existed, create it.
if (!Directory.Exists(mailbox))
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(mailbox);
}
// Hotmail/Outlook IMAP4 server is "imap-mail.outlook.com"
MailServer oServer = new MailServer("imap-mail.outlook.com",
"liveid@hotmail.com", "yourpassword", ServerProtocol.Imap4);
// for office365 account, please use
// MailServer oServer = new MailServer("outlook.office365.com",
// "yourid@domain", "yourpassword", ServerProtocol.Imap4);
MailClient oClient = new MailClient("TryIt");
// Set SSL connection
oServer.SSLConnection = true;
// Set 993 IMAP4 SSL port
oServer.Port = 993;
try
{
oClient.Connect(oServer);
MailInfo[] infos = oClient.GetMailInfos();
for (int i = 0; i < infos.Length; i++)
{
MailInfo info = infos[i];
Console.WriteLine("Index: {0}; Size: {1}; UIDL: {2}",
info.Index, info.Size, info.UIDL);
// Download email from Hotmail/MSN IMAP4 server
Mail oMail = oClient.GetMail(info);
Console.WriteLine("From: {0}", oMail.From.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Subject: {0}\r\n", oMail.Subject);
// Generate an email file name based on date time.
System.DateTime d = System.DateTime.Now;
System.Globalization.CultureInfo cur = new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");
string sdate = d.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss", cur);
string fileName = String.Format("{0}\\{1}{2}{3}.eml",
mailbox, sdate, d.Millisecond.ToString("d3"), i);
// Save email to local disk
oMail.SaveAs(fileName, true);
// Mark email as deleted in Hotmail/MSN Live account.
oClient.Delete(info);
}
// Quit and purge emails marked as deleted from Hotmail/MSN Live server.
oClient.Quit();
}
catch (Exception ep)
{
Console.WriteLine(ep.Message);
}
}
}
}
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