Is there a class or set of functions built into the .NET Framework (3.5+) to parse raw emails (MIME documents)?
I am not looking for anything fancy or a separate lib
I know you said no external libraries, but I have a library posted on codeplex:
https://bitbucket.org/otac0n/mailutilities
MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(/* string, stream, or Byte[] */);
It has been tested with over 40,000 real-world mail messages.
I'm not too happy with my namespace choice, but... I'm too lazy to change it.
Internally, my library uses these regexes as a parser:
internal static string FullMessageMatch =
@"\A(?<header>(?:[^\r\n]+\r\n)*)(?<header_term>\r\n)(?<body>.*)\z";
internal static string HeadersMatch =
@"^(?<header_key>[-A-Za-z0-9]+)(?<seperator>:[ \t]*)(?<header_value>([^\r\n]|\r\n[ \t]+)*)(?<terminator>\r\n)";
internal static string HeaderSeperator =
"\r\n";
internal static string KeyValueSeparator =
@"\A:[ \t]*\z";
I recommend IMAP and MIME parser libs from Lumisoft. Which I used before and its easy to work with. You can download it from here: http://www.lumisoft.ee/lsWWW/Download/Downloads/Net/ The lib has many other protocols like ftp, pop3, etc and I'm sure the sc is available. Try to google for it, also you can find it on codeproject.com regards
No, there is no way to do that yet. Microsoft has not created a Text-to-Message convertor just as they haven't created a POP3 or IMAP library. Unfortunate.
check out our Rebex Secure Mail which includes a (IMHO) decent S/MIME parser. Features include:
The parser is part of Rebex Secure Mail and you can download it here.
Check out Mail.dll .NET mail component, it has build in MIME support, unicode, and multi-national email support:
MailBuilder builder = new MailBuilder();
// Here you get the message class with attachments, visuals
IMail message = builder.CreateFromEml(File.ReadAllText("test.eml"));
// you can access entire MIME document:
MimeDocument document = message.Document;
Please note that Mail.dll is a commercial product that I've created.
You can download it here: https://www.limilabs.com/mail.
Very impressed with free, open-source (MIT-licensed) and fast MimeKit