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Downloading attachments to directory with IMAP in PHP, randomly works

May 28, 2023 by Tarik

This is perfect working answer, try this. This Sample run properly and download all the attachments with no issues. <?php set_time_limit(3000); /* connect to gmail with your credentials */ $hostname=”{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX”; $username=”YOUR_USERNAME”; $password = ‘YOUR_PASSWORD’; /* try to connect */ $inbox = imap_open($hostname,$username,$password) or die(‘Cannot connect to Gmail: ‘ . imap_last_error()); $emails = imap_search($inbox, ‘FROM “abc@gmail.com”‘); … Read more

How to understand the equal sign ‘=’ symbol in IMAP email text?

May 26, 2023 by Tarik

In a nutshell, an equal sign at the end of a line indicates a soft line break. An equal sign followed by two hexadecimal characters (0-9, A-F) encodes a single octet (byte). This encoding scheme is called “quoted printable” and is defined in section 6.7 of RFC 2045. See items (1) and (5), in particular. … Read more

JavaMail IMAP over SSL quite slow – Bulk fetching multiple messages

May 15, 2023 by Tarik

after a lot of work, and assistance from the people at JavaMail, the source of this “slowness” is from the FETCH behavior in the API. Indeed, as pjaol said, we return to the server each time we need info (a header, or message content) for a message. If FetchProfile allows us to bulk fetch header … Read more

IMAP auth in Office 365 using OAuth2

May 5, 2023 by Tarik

We are actively working on OAuth support for IMAP connections to O365 mailboxes. We will make a public announcement once the same is available.

Reading emails from Gmail in C#

May 2, 2023 by Tarik

Using the library from: https://github.com/pmengal/MailSystem.NET Here is my complete code sample: Email Repository using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using ActiveUp.Net.Mail; namespace GmailReadImapEmail { public class MailRepository { private Imap4Client client; public MailRepository(string mailServer, int port, bool ssl, string login, string password) { if (ssl) Client.ConnectSsl(mailServer, port); else Client.Connect(mailServer, port); Client.Login(login, password); } public IEnumerable<Message> GetAllMails(string mailBox) … Read more

What are the “parts” in a multipart email?

October 2, 2022 by Tarik

An email message consists of a single MIME part, or a multipart structure with multiple MIME parts. If there is no multipart structure, the message is compatible with pre-MIME RFC822 messages, and the Content-type: etc headers are optional (if you don’t spell out a content type and encoding, Content-type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” and Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit are … Read more

using c# .net libraries to check for IMAP messages from gmail servers [closed]

August 9, 2022 by Tarik

I’d recommend looking at MailKit as it is probably the most robust mail library out there and it’s Open Source (MIT). One of the awesome things about MailKit is that all network APIs are cancelable (something I haven’t seen available in any other IMAP library). It’s also the only library that I know of that … Read more

Getting mail from GMail into Java application using IMAP

July 13, 2022 by Tarik

Using imaps was a great suggestion. Neither of the answers provided just worked for me, so I googled some more and found something that worked. Here’s how my code looks now. Properties props = System.getProperties(); props.setProperty(“mail.store.protocol”, “imaps”); try { Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null); Store store = session.getStore(“imaps”); store.connect(“imap.gmail.com”, “<username>@gmail.com”, “<password>”); … } catch (NoSuchProviderException … Read more

Accessing Imap in C# [closed]

June 11, 2022 by Tarik

I’ve been searching for an IMAP solution for a while now, and after trying quite a few, I’m going with AE.Net.Mail. You can download the code by going to the Code tab and click the small ‘Download’ icon. As the author does not provide any pre-built downloads, you must compile it yourself. (I believe you … Read more