How to configure my asp.net application to Receive Email

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Hello all,

There are a lot of articles written that how send email but there is no information about how to receive email. I want to ask, let suppose i am running my webmail with domain as www.webmail.com now if an email is sent on www.webmail.com using yahoo or other email service then how can i receive the email over here. What c# code should be written to receive the email. Kindly help.

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Posted 10-Jul-12 8:51am

junaidcodeproject

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Jul-12 15:24pm

First, you need to ask yourself what do you mean by "receiving e-mail". Because ASP.NET works with HTTP (HTTPS), which are not the mail protocols.
--SA

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Probably more than you would ever want to know
http://www.example-code.com/csharp/email.asp[^]

Posted 10-Jul-12 8:54am

Wes Aday

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Jul-12 15:37pm

Considering that OP failed to find anything on the Web, I'm pretty sure your list will still be the same problem. And this is not because of the lack if information. This is because the question itself makes no sense, as there is no such a notion "receive e-mail in ASP.NET".

I explain it in my answer, please see.
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10T09:35:00

Please see my comment to the question. As ASP.NET works with HTTP (HTTPS), not with e-mail protocols, the question makes no sense. There is nothing to "configure". It would make sense if you simply explained what do you want to do with e-mail (no, "receive" is not an unambiguous definition of it) and what functionality you want. It is possible that you don't need anything related to ASP.NET but need to setup, say, SMTP-based service. Or do you need a Web front-end to a post boxes with stored messages? They you would need to work with SMTP or IMAP.

Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_server[^], see also "Transfer versus Access" section,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol[^].

If you determine for yourself what exactly do you need, you will probably find a lot of help. For example, see on CodeProject:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=POP3+%22C%23%22[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=Pop3+%22C%23%22[^].

—SA