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Donald Jansen
Donald Jansen

Reputation: 1985

Imap Fetch Command

I am using the following C# code retrieve the header of messages, but I want to modify it so it can tell me if the message contains any Attachments, however I do not want to load the complete message with attachments

var command = string.Format("FETCH {0} (FLAGS UID BODY[HEADER])", i);
Clean();
SendCommand(command);
var sizeLine = ReadLine();

I've tried the following

This retrieves the complete message or simply don't work, I am also working from the rfc website but can't seem to find the command for it

var command = string.Format("FETCH {0} (FLAGS UID BODY.PEEK[])", i);
var command = string.Format("FETCH {0} (FLAGS UID BODY[])", i);
var command = string.Format("FETCH {0} (FLAGS UID BODY[HEADER,MIME])", i);
var command = string.Format("FETCH {0} (FLAGS UID BODY[MIME])", i);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3168

Answers (2)

arnt
arnt

Reputation: 9675

The command you're looking for is UID FETCH ... BODYSTRUCTURE. Once you've seen the response, you may wish to consider using a library to do the parsing for you. There are at least two candidates on C#, MailKit and something called, IIRC, mailsystem.net. Try mailkit first.

Upvotes: 3

alexandrekow
alexandrekow

Reputation: 1937

Maybe you forgot to put UID before the FETCH command: 

string tag = GetTag();
string response = SendCommandGetResponse(tag + "UID FETCH " + uid + " (BODY" +
                    (seen ? null : ".PEEK") + "[HEADER])", false);

coming from the S22 ImapClient.cs

Upvotes: 0

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