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MailKit

MailKit is an Open Source cross-platform .NET mail-client library that is based on MimeKit and optimized for mobile devices. Features include: * SASL Authentication via SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-1, NTLM, DIGEST-MD5, CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN, and XOAUTH2. * A fully-cancellable SmtpClient with support for STARTTLS, 8BITMIME, BINARYMIME, ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES, SIZE, DSN, PIPELINING and SMTPUTF8. * A fully-cancellable Pop3Client with support for STLS, UIDL, APOP, PIPELINING, UTF8, and LANG. * A fully-cancellable ImapClient with support for ACL, QUOTA, LITERAL+, IDLE, NAMESPACE, ID, CHILDREN, LOGINDISABLED, STARTTLS, MULTIAPPEND, UNSELECT, UIDPLUS, CONDSTORE, ESEARCH, SASL-IR, COMPRESS, WITHIN, ENABLE, QRESYNC, SORT, THREAD, ESORT, METADATA, FILTERS, LIST-STATUS, SORT=DISPLAY, SPECIAL-USE, CREATE-SPECIAL-USE, MOVE, SEARCH=FUZZY, UTF8=ACCEPT, UTF8=ONLY, LITERAL-, APPENDLIMIT, XLIST, and X-GM-EXT1. * Client-side sorting and threading of messages (the Ordinal Subject and the Jamie Zawinski threading algorithms are supported). * Asynchronous versions of all methods that hit the network. * S/MIME, OpenPGP and DKIM signature support via MimeKit. * Microsoft TNEF support via MimeKit.

Total Downloads
258.3M
258,337,250
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Latest stable version

Install

.NET CLI
dotnet add package MailKit --version 1.14.2
Package Manager Console
Install-Package MailKit -Version 1.14.2
PackageReference
<PackageReference Include="MailKit" Version="1.14.2" />

Frameworks

.NETFramework4.0 .NETFramework4.5 .NETFramework4.5.1 MonoAndroid1.0 Xamarin.iOS1.0 .NETStandard1.3 WindowsPhoneApp8.1

Dependencies

BouncyCastle
.NETFramework4.0
[1.8.1, )
MimeKit
.NETFramework4.0
[1.14.0, )
BouncyCastle
.NETFramework4.5
[1.8.1, )
MimeKit
.NETFramework4.5
[1.14.0, )
BouncyCastle
.NETFramework4.5.1
[1.8.1, )
MimeKit
.NETFramework4.5.1
[1.14.0, )
MimeKit
MonoAndroid1.0
[1.14.0, )
MimeKit
Xamarin.iOS1.0
[1.14.0, )
NETStandard.Library
.NETStandard1.3
[1.6.1, )
[4.3.0, )
[4.3.0, )
[4.3.0, )
[4.3.0, )
[4.3.0, )
System.Net.Security
.NETStandard1.3
[4.3.0, )
System.Data.Common
.NETStandard1.3
[4.3.0, )
Portable.BouncyCastle
.NETStandard1.3
[1.8.1.2, )
MimeKit
.NETStandard1.3
[1.14.0, )
Portable.BouncyCastle
WindowsPhoneApp8.1
[1.8.1.2, )
MimeKit
WindowsPhoneApp8.1
[1.14.0, )

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