C#/CSharp ExampleYahoo POP3 server address is "pop.mail.yahoo.com" or "plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com". It requires SSL connection on 995 port, and you should use your Yahoo email address as the user name for user authentication. For example: your email is "myid@yahoo.com", and then the user name should be "myid@yahoo.com".
The following example codes demonstrate how to retrieve email from Yahoo POP3 server.
// The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from Yahoo POP3 server
// To get full sample projects, please download and install EAGetMail on your machine.
// To run it correctly, please change email server, user, password, folder, file name value to yours
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
// Add EAGetMail namespace
using EAGetMail;
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);
}
// Yahoo POP3 server is "pop.mail.yahoo.com"
MailServer oServer = new MailServer("pop.mail.yahoo.com",
"myid@yahoo.com", "yourpassword", ServerProtocol.Pop3 );
MailClient oClient = new MailClient("TryIt");
// Set SSL connection
oServer.SSLConnection = true;
// Set 995 SSL port
oServer.Port = 995;
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);
// Receive email from Yahoo POP3 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 Yahoo account.
oClient.Delete(info);
}
// Quit and pure emails marked as deleted from Yahoo POP3 server.
oClient.Quit();
}
catch (Exception ep)
{
Console.WriteLine(ep.Message);
}
}
}
}
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