I am trying to read emails from Gmail. I have tried every API / open source project I can find, and can not get any of them working.
Does anyone have a sample of working code that will allow me to authenticate and download emails from a Gmail account?
Final working version posted below: https://mcmap.net/q/396311/-reading-emails-from-gmail-in-c
Using the library from: https://github.com/pmengal/MailSystem.NET
Here is my complete code sample:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using ActiveUp.Net.Mail;
namespace GmailReadImapEmail
{
public class MailRepository
{
private Imap4Client client;
public MailRepository(string mailServer, int port, bool ssl, string login, string password)
{
if (ssl)
Client.ConnectSsl(mailServer, port);
else
Client.Connect(mailServer, port);
Client.Login(login, password);
}
public IEnumerable<Message> GetAllMails(string mailBox)
{
return GetMails(mailBox, "ALL").Cast<Message>();
}
public IEnumerable<Message> GetUnreadMails(string mailBox)
{
return GetMails(mailBox, "UNSEEN").Cast<Message>();
}
protected Imap4Client Client
{
get { return client ?? (client = new Imap4Client()); }
}
private MessageCollection GetMails(string mailBox, string searchPhrase)
{
Mailbox mails = Client.SelectMailbox(mailBox);
MessageCollection messages = mails.SearchParse(searchPhrase);
return messages;
}
}
}
[TestMethod]
public void ReadImap()
{
var mailRepository = new MailRepository(
"imap.gmail.com",
993,
true,
"[email protected]",
"yourPassword"
);
var emailList = mailRepository.GetAllMails("inbox");
foreach (Message email in emailList)
{
Console.WriteLine("<p>{0}: {1}</p><p>{2}</p>", email.From, email.Subject, email.BodyHtml.Text);
if (email.Attachments.Count > 0)
{
foreach (MimePart attachment in email.Attachments)
{
Console.WriteLine("<p>Attachment: {0} {1}</p>", attachment.ContentName, attachment.ContentType.MimeType);
}
}
}
}
public class MailRepository : IMailRepository
{
private readonly string mailServer, login, password;
private readonly int port;
private readonly bool ssl;
public MailRepository(string mailServer, int port, bool ssl, string login, string password)
{
this.mailServer = mailServer;
this.port = port;
this.ssl = ssl;
this.login = login;
this.password = password;
}
public IEnumerable<string> GetUnreadMails()
{
var messages = new List<string>();
using (var client = new ImapClient())
{
client.Connect(mailServer, port, ssl);
// Note: since we don't have an OAuth2 token, disable
// the XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism.
client.AuthenticationMechanisms.Remove("XOAUTH2");
client.Authenticate(login, password);
// The Inbox folder is always available on all IMAP servers...
var inbox = client.Inbox;
inbox.Open(FolderAccess.ReadOnly);
var results = inbox.Search(SearchOptions.All, SearchQuery.Not(SearchQuery.Seen));
foreach (var uniqueId in results.UniqueIds)
{
var message = inbox.GetMessage(uniqueId);
messages.Add(message.HtmlBody);
//Mark message as read
//inbox.AddFlags(uniqueId, MessageFlags.Seen, true);
}
client.Disconnect(true);
}
return messages;
}
public IEnumerable<string> GetAllMails()
{
var messages = new List<string>();
using (var client = new ImapClient())
{
client.Connect(mailServer, port, ssl);
// Note: since we don't have an OAuth2 token, disable
// the XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism.
client.AuthenticationMechanisms.Remove("XOAUTH2");
client.Authenticate(login, password);
// The Inbox folder is always available on all IMAP servers...
var inbox = client.Inbox;
inbox.Open(FolderAccess.ReadOnly);
var results = inbox.Search(SearchOptions.All, SearchQuery.NotSeen);
foreach (var uniqueId in results.UniqueIds)
{
var message = inbox.GetMessage(uniqueId);
messages.Add(message.HtmlBody);
//Mark message as read
//inbox.AddFlags(uniqueId, MessageFlags.Seen, true);
}
client.Disconnect(true);
}
return messages;
}
}
[Test]
public void GetAllEmails()
{
var mailRepository = new MailRepository("imap.gmail.com", 993, true, "[email protected]", "YOURPASSWORDHERE");
var allEmails = mailRepository.GetAllMails();
foreach(var email in allEmails)
{
Console.WriteLine(email);
}
Assert.IsTrue(allEmails.ToList().Any());
}
MailSystem.NET , but has error on Client.Log() : BAD Too many arguments provided . My password contains spaces and this login fails! –
Stadiometer You don't need any extra 3rd Party Libraries if a summary of the 20 most recent emails is sufficient for you. You can read the data from API that Gmail has provided here: https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
The response in XML format can be handled by the code below:
try {
const string emailAddress = "YourEmail";
// App Password, not password
// See: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
const string appPassword = "YourAppPassword";
string response;
string title;
string summary;
XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
// Logging in Gmail server to get data
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"{emailAddress}:{appPassword}")));
// Reading data and converting to string
response = await httpClient.GetStringAsync(@"https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom");
// Remove XML namespace to simplify parsing/selecting nodes
response = response.Replace(@"<feed version=""0.3"" xmlns=""http://purl.org/atom/ns#"">", @"<feed>");
// Loading into an XML so we can get information easily
xmlDocument.LoadXml(response);
// Amount of emails
string nr = xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode(@"/feed/fullcount").InnerText;
// Reading the title and the summary for every email
foreach (XmlNode node in xmlDocument.SelectNodes(@"/feed/entry")) {
title = node.SelectSingleNode("title").InnerText;
summary = node.SelectSingleNode("summary").InnerText;
Console.WriteLine($"> {title}");
Console.WriteLine($"{summary}");
Console.WriteLine();
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
MessageBox.Show($"Error retrieving mails: {ex.Message}");
}
Have you tried POP3 Email Client with full MIME Support ?
If you don't it's a very good example for you. As an alternativ;
.NET class library in C# for communicating with POP3 servers. Easy to use but yet powerful. Includes a robust MIME parser backed by several hundred test cases. For more information, visit our project homepage.
You can also try Mail.dll IMAP client.
It supports all Gmail IMAP protocol extensions:
Please note that Mail.dll is a commercial product, I've developed.
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