A POP3 Control/Component by AfterLogic Corporation

MailBee POP3 V5.3

MailBee POP3 allows you to easily implement e-mail managing and retrieval in ASP, VB or any other ActiveX-capable environment. It supports secure authentication to POP3 server, partial retrieval of the messages, determining message sizes without downloading message headers, deleting messages, parsing and decoding messages into easy-to-use Message objects.

POP3 Object Features

• Supports secure authentication methods (including APOP, NTLM, MSN) during connection to POP3 server


• Can retrieve all messages as a collection, retrieve only headers for each message, headers + part of message body


• Can retrieve any single particular message or (its headers)


• Can detect total message count in the mailbox, total size of all messages and sizes of every message. All of above does not require to retrieve messages or headers


• Automatically parses retrieved messages and headers (decoding from base64/quoted-printable/uue, converting charset to windows code page, etc.)


• Automatically creates plain-text version of HTML formatted message if plain version is not available in the message itself


• Can determine whether a message contains attachments when downloading message headers only


• Can delete messages from POP3 server


• Supports logging POP3 session into the file


• Can execute user-specified commands (SendCommand method)


• Ping method allows to implement "keep connection alive" function in your applications


• Supports event mechanism to track retrieval progress (and abort retrieval if needed)

Message Object Features

• Available in all MailBee Objects packages (POP3, SMTP, Objects). Used as a main unit POP3 retrieval and SMTP sending methods operate with


• Because SMTP object composes messages using Message object, all composing functionality of SMTP object also applies to Message object


• Includes collection of a message's attachments


• Provides access to custom message headers through GetHeader method


• Can be created explicitly through CreateObject and then saved to disk or sent by SMTP object


• Any content can be loaded to RawBody property (such as content of message file or attachment with message inside)


• RawBody operates symmetrically: when you set Message properties or call Message-affecting methods (such as AddAttachment),
RawBody will reflect this changes next time you read it; when you load RawBody with new value, other Message properties such as BodyText are refreshed

• No redundant refreshes on RawBody. If you sequentially change some Message properties, RawBody will be updated only when you read it, not after every changing Message properties

Technical Information

Component Type - Contains the following types of components...

• .Net Class Library  • ActiveX Component (in process, DLL)

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