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

Answer 1

There is simply no reason to use anything besides MailKit. It's free to use under MIT Licence, frequently updated since 2014 and as easy to use as a Mail Client.

Answer 2

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/

Answer 3

You can use POP3 or IMAP to check for email messages and then process the email message for saving the attached .ppt file. Click here for a sample.

Answer 4

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.