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c#.netmailkit
penCsharpener
penCsharpener

Reputation: 449

How to save entire MailKit mime message as a byte array

I'm building a simple .net MailKit IMAP client. Rather then pulling emails again and again from the IMAP server, is it possible to store the entire MailKit mime message (in full, including attachments) as a byte array? If so, how?

Then I could write it to MySql or a file and reuse it for testing code changes.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5529

Answers (1)

jstedfast
jstedfast

Reputation: 38528

As Lucas points out, you can use the MimeMessage.WriteTo() method to write the message to either a file name or to a stream (such as a MemoryStream).

If you want the message as a byte array in order to save it to an SQL database, you could do this:

using (var memory = new MemoryStream ()) {
    message.WriteTo (memory);

    var blob = memory.ToArray ();
    // now save the blob to the database
}

To read it back from the database, you'd first read the blob as a byte[] and then do this:

using (var memory = new MemoryStream (blob, false)) {
    message = MimeMessage.Load (memory);
}

Upvotes: 12

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