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Externon
Externon

Reputation: 11

Get emails from a Public Folder c#

I want to get mails from a public folder! i have the following code but just get emails from my inbox!

Imap4Client imap = new Imap4Client();
imap.Connect("servername");
imap.LoginFast("username", "password");

var inbox = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox");

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1445

Answers (1)

jstedfast
jstedfast

Reputation: 38528

I have no idea what IMAP library you are using, but if you use MailKit you can easily access any folder you want (whether it be in the personal, shared, or other namespaces).

using System;

using MailKit.Net.Imap;
using MailKit.Search;
using MailKit;
using MimeKit;

namespace TestClient {
    class Program
    {
        public static void Main (string[] args)
        {
            using (var client = new ImapClient ()) {
                client.Connect ("imap.gmail.com", 993, true);

                // Note: since we don't have an OAuth2 token, disable
                // the XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism.
                client.AuthenticationMechanisms.Remove ("XOAUTH2");

                client.Authenticate (username, password);

                // Get a reference to the personal namespace as a folder:
                var personal = client.GetFolder (client.PersonalNamespaces[0]);

                // Get a list of subfolders within our personal namespace:
                foreach (var folder in personal.GetSubfolders ()) {
                    Console.WriteLine ("Name: {0}", folder.Name);

                    // To get the message count, we either need to Open()
                    // the folder or we can call Status() to just get
                    // the properties that we care about:
                    folder.Status (StatusItems.Count | StatusItems.Unread);

                    Console.WriteLine ("Count: {0}", folder.Count);
                    Console.WriteLine ("Unread: {0}", folder.Unread);

                    // If we want to fetch any of the messages (or get any
                    // message metadata, we'll need to actually Open() the
                    // folder:
                    folder.Open (FolderAccess.ReadWrite);

                    for (int i = 0; i < folder.Count; i++) {
                        var message = folder.GetMessage (i);
                        Console.WriteLine ("Subject: {0}", message.Subject);
                    }

                    // Of course, there are many other things we can do
                    // such as searching, getting meta info about the
                    // messages (such as flags, pre-parsed envelope headers
                    // the size, etc), setting flags, getting individual
                    // parts of the message, etc.

                    // Note: we can also get subfolders of this folder...
                    foreach (var subfolder in folder.GetSubfolders ()) {
                        // ...
                    }
                }

                client.Disconnect (true);
            }
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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