MailKit
MailKit is an Open Source cross-platform .NET mail-client library that is based on MimeKit and optimized for mobile devices. Features include: * HTTP, Socks4, Socks4a and Socks5 proxy support. * SASL Authentication via ANONYMOUS, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, LOGIN, NTLM, OAUTHBEARER, PLAIN, SCRAM-SHA-1, SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512 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, ANNOTATE, LIST-EXTENDED, ESORT, METADATA / METADATA-SERVER, NOTIFY, FILTERS, LIST-STATUS, SORT=DISPLAY, SPECIAL-USE / CREATE-SPECIAL-USE, SEARCH=FUZZY, MOVE, UTF8=ACCEPT / UTF8=ONLY, LITERAL-, APPENDLIMIT, STATUS=SIZE, OBJECTID, REPLACE, SAVEDATE, 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, DKIM and ARC support via MimeKit. * Microsoft TNEF support via MimeKit.
Install
dotnet add package MailKit --version 3.5.0
Install-Package MailKit -Version 3.5.0
<PackageReference Include="MailKit" Version="3.5.0" />
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