Read Emails From Gmail And Outlook In C#

Rupal Ribadiya Dec 22, 2020 10 9.9K

This article will help you to read an email from Gmail or outlook using EAGetMail. Also, it helps to save the attachment which is attached within that email.

Step 1: Install NuGet package EAGetMail V4.6.5.1 from tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage Nuget Packages for Solution.

Step 2: Now Connect the IMAP4 server using the following code. Server imap.gmail.com is used to read Gmail inbox. If you want to read the outlook inbox then you can use imap.outlook.com.

MailServer oServer = new MailServer("imap.gmail.com", "Gmail Id", "Gmail password", ServerProtocol.Imap4);
MailClient oClient = new MailClient("TryIt");

Step 3: Enable SSL connection for your server.

oServer.SSLConnection = true;
oServer.Port = 993;

If your server doesn’t allow an SSL connection then you can use the following code.

oServer.SSLConnection = false;
oServer.Port = 143;

Step 4: If you want to search email with unread flag, you have to set EAGetMail.GetMailInfosOptionType.NewOnly. Default will be EAGetMail.GetMailInfosOptionType.All.

oClient.GetMailInfosParam.GetMailInfosOptions = GetMailInfosOptionType.NewOnly;

Step 5: Connect the Mail server and read emails from the mailbox.

oClient.Connect(oServer);
MailInfo[] infos = oClient.GetMailInfos();

Step 6: Now you can read email content using mail object.

for (int i = infos.Length - 1; i > 0; i--)
{
    MailInfo info = infos[i];
    Mail oMail = oClient.GetMail(info);
}

Step 7: Below code is used to save attachments within your project.

var count = oMail.Attachments.ToList().Count;
for (int j = 0; j < count; j++)
{
    oMail.Attachments[j].SaveAs(Server.MapPath("~/Inbox") + "\\" + oMail.Attachments[j].Name, true); // true for overWrite file
}

Rupal Ribadiya

I have five years of expertise within the IT industry with an understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, and Testing in Microsoft Technology. Having expertise in the process of various application developments like web applications in ASP.NET, C#, MVC, Web APIs, Rest API, Angular, Node, Express and React.

ajay kumar on December 10, 2021 at 6:52 pm

Thanks RUPAL RIBADIYA For Sharing It, It’s Working Fine

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Tanju on November 4, 2021 at 5:12 pm

hi,
the code worked…
thanks…

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henry on July 8, 2021 at 10:23 pm

hi ,
apps can t writeline mail infos ,
NOT WORKING >> no ref oMail and run infinite loop … help :/

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1. Rupal Ribadiya on July 27, 2021 at 11:01 pm
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  Can you please tell me the exact issue or can you show me your code?
  
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Dmitriy on June 24, 2021 at 10:18 pm

Hi Rupal!
I have installed the package, recieved gmail ID using OAuth 2.0 Client IDs, but i recieve error “EAGetMail.MailServerException: A0002 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)” on line oClient.Connect(oServer); My IMAP is Enable and I set on unsafe apps allowed. What`s wrong? Can you help me? Thanks!

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1. Rupal Ribadiya on June 29, 2021 at 11:57 pm
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  I think you misread this document. Here you don’t need OAuth for authentication. In step 2 simply you need to replace your Gmail ID and Password while connecting Mail Server.
  Thanks
  
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Ashish on January 2, 2021 at 6:51 pm

great job!!!

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