Decing a POP3 email

[Paul S]

Hi

I'm trying to parse and email I get from a POP3 server.
Waht do I do to get the filename out right. I believe the encoding is
quoted-printable.

Content-Type: text/xml;
name="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Analytics_www.xxx.dk_20080224_(Bes=F8gsstatistik).xml?="
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Analytics_www.xxx.dk_20080224_(Bes=F8gsstatistik).xml?="
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

 

[Jeroen Mostert]

I'm trying to parse and email I get from a POP3 server.

This is a group on .NET, not e-mail protocols.

But to save us all a lot of time: RFC 1522, section 4.2.

 

[Paul S]

Hi
This was more a question of whether the framework contained some sort of
help in decoding a qouted-printable text.

 

[Jeroen Mostert]

This was more a question of whether the framework contained some sort of
help in decoding a qouted-printable text.

No, and it's one of my pet peeves (less pet and more peeve, actually).
System.Net.Mail and System.Net.Mime contain a lot of classes, but they're
all glued together in such a way that you can't reuse them. Unless you're
really fond of using reflection in naughty ways.

You can *send* mail with quoted-printable text and headers just fine.
Receiving mail, on the other hand, is something you'll have to get a library
for. Or write yourself.

 

[Steven Cheng]

Hi Paul,

So far in .Net framework there only provides some SMTP classes. For the
code print-able text, you may create a custom decoder through those
built-in encoding/decoding classes (such as the Convert class which support
base64 encode/decode...). Here are some articles and open source component
about .net POP3 component, you may get some ideas from them:

#Using POP3 with C# to download and parse your mail.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/karavaev_denis.aspx

#How To POP3 in C#
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive450.html

#OpenPOP.NET
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpop/

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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Subject: Re: Decing a POP3 email
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:15:04 -0700

Hi
This was more a question of whether the framework contained some sort of
help in decoding a qouted-printable text.