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Receiving email and downloading attachment through a C# Application

I am trying to implement an 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 - saving it to the hard drive.

I looked a bit, but all I found was the System.Net.Mail objects which only support sending emails through an application using the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class.

How can I do this in C#?

Solution 
  • var client = new POPClient();
client.Connect("pop.gmail.com", 995, true);
client.Authenticate("admin@bendytree.com", "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/