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Visual Basic Example

The following example codes demonstrate how to retrieve email from POP3 server. This sample downloads emails from POP3 server and deletes the email after the email is retrieved.

' The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from POP3 server
' To get full sample projects, please download and install EAGetMail on your machine.
' To run it correctly, please change email server, user, password, folder, file name value to yours


Imports System.IO 

' Imports EAGetMail namespace
Imports EAGetMail 

Module Module1 
    Sub Main() 
        ' Create a folder named "inbox" under current directory
        ' to save the email retrieved.
        Dim curpath As String = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() 
        Dim mailbox As String = [String].Format("{0}\inbox", curpath) 

        ' If the folder is not existed, create it.
        If Not Directory.Exists(mailbox) Then 
            Directory.CreateDirectory(mailbox) 
        End If 

        Dim oServer As New MailServer("pop3.emailarchitect.net", _ 
            "test@emailarchitect.net", "testpassword", ServerProtocol.Pop3) 
        Dim oClient As New MailClient("TryIt") 

        ' If your POP3 server requires SSL connection,
        ' Please add the following codes:
        ' oServer.SSLConnection = True
        ' oServer.Port = 995

        Try 
            oClient.Connect(oServer) 
            Dim infos As MailInfo() = oClient.GetMailInfos() 
            For i As Integer = 0 To infos.Length - 1 
                Dim info As MailInfo = infos(i) 
                Console.WriteLine("Index: {0}; Size: {1}; UIDL: {2}", _ 
                        info.Index, info.Size, info.UIDL) 

                ' Receive email from POP3 server
                Dim oMail As Mail = oClient.GetMail(info) 

                Console.WriteLine("From: {0}", oMail.From.ToString()) 
                Console.WriteLine("Subject: {0}" & vbCr & vbLf, oMail.Subject) 

                ' Generate an email file name based on date time.
                Dim d As System.DateTime = System.DateTime.Now 
                Dim cur As New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US") 
                Dim sdate As String = d.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss", cur) 
                Dim fileName As String = [String].Format("{0}\{1}{2}{3}.eml", _ 
                     mailbox, sdate, d.Millisecond.ToString("d3"), i) 

                ' Save email to local disk
                oMail.SaveAs(fileName, True) 

                ' Mark email as deleted from POP3 server.
                oClient.Delete(info) 
            Next 

            ' Quit and pure emails marked as deleted from POP3 server.
            oClient.Quit() 
        Catch ep As Exception 
            Console.WriteLine(ep.Message) 
        End Try 

    End Sub 
End Module 
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