Way to retreive the mails

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Way to retreive the mails

Peter_1985 2,711

Hi,

Is it a good way to use SmtpServer and retrieve all of the mails (of a period) to one mail account? And get all of the details of the mails?

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Jiale Xue - MSFT 49,126 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Peter_1985 , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

Updated：

Read https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.mail.smtpclient?view=net-9.0 to find out that (SMTP) uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol to send emails. It is not used to receive emails.

Refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1791528/reading-emails-from-outlook-in-c .

You can use MailKit to connect to an IMAP server.

Best Regards,

Jiale

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Peter_1985 2,711 Reputation points

2025-03-04T06:35:49.38+00:00

Do you have an example to use IMAP API to get all mails (of a period) to get Sender and Body of the mail?
Jiale Xue - MSFT 49,126 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-04T06:37:24.8066667+00:00

Hi @Peter_1985 ,This platform does not provide third-party codes.
Jiale Xue - MSFT 49,126 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-04T06:42:03.93+00:00

You can raise new questions in the relevant tags after referring to this document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/exchange-web-services/mail-apps-for-outlook-and-ews-in-exchange and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/outlook-change-notifications-overview.
Peter_1985 2,711 Reputation points

2025-03-05T01:37:15.06+00:00

Any example way to achieve this (run the API) using C#?
Jiale Xue - MSFT 49,126 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-05T02:49:06.5266667+00:00

The answer to the related question is not under this tag. It is recommended that you create a new question with the related tag and ask. Your question is mentioned in the link I provided. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/search-query-parameter?tabs=http or https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/mail-api-overview?view=graph-rest-1.0
Peter_1985 2,711 Reputation points

2025-03-05T04:08:37.01+00:00

Is it correct that I must select the other tag related to Outlook? But the mail server related to this, can be non-Outlook mail server.
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Jiale Xue - MSFT 49,126 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-17T14:48:18.7566667+00:00

Normally, you need to enable the imap option in the mailbox and select the correct iamp domain name. The code linked in my question used to work fine. Now, it may have a login fail error due to the update of email. You can also test other mailboxes. I will continue to follow up on this issue.

Answer 2

Bruce (SqlWork.com) 72,596

You are probably looking for a IMAP sdk. Microsoft does not supply one, only access to exchange and office 365 via the graph api (and obsolete ews sdk).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/use-the-api

you will need to find a 3rd party sdk. you may need modern features like oauth support, so be sure the sdk supports this. It is beyond the scope of this forum to recommend 3rd party solutions.

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