Receiving email and downloading attachment through a C# Application

Question

I am trying to implement a WPF application which can receive the mails sent to a specific email address. The scenario is that, the user will send a PPT file as an attachment to a specific email address, and my WPF application will listen to this email and once it receives the email, it will download the attached file and saves it to the hard drive.

I looked a bit, but all I found was that the System.Net.Mail only supports sending emails through an application using System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class. Can anyone suggest me how to do this in WPF and C#.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

var client = new POPClient();
client.Connect("pop.gmail.com", 995, true);
client.Authenticate("[email protected]", "YourPasswordHere");
var count = client.GetMessageCount();
Message message = client.GetMessage(count);
Console.WriteLine(message.Headers.Subject);

A simple tip, that you can follow: https://joshwright.com/tips/tips-sending-receiving-email-in-csharp/

Answer 2

Since the various links in the other answers don't work anymore, here are 2 links to articles I wrote on CodeProject how to download emails received from POP3 servers like Gmail:

POP3 Email Client
POP3 Email Client with full MIME Support

The code has been downloaded over 10000 times, but is too big to be posted here.