SharpMimeTools - open source MIME parser/decoder assembly library written in C#

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SharpMimeTools

Open Source MIME parser written in C#

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Resources:

»	Documentation
	SharpMimeTools reference.
»	License
	SharpMimeTools is under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2.1 or later.
»	Latest version
	Download the latest version (source code and binary included).
»	Development
	Instructions for downloading and building the latest development version.
»	SourceForge project page
	Project page at sourceforge.net with SVN repository, Mailing Lists, forums, etc.
»	Project forums
	Project forums. Post here if you have questions, need assistance, etc.
»	Change log
	Current change log.
»	Browse source repository
	ViewVC interface to the development code.

Related resources:

SharpWebMail - SharpWebMail is an ASP.NET webmail application that is written in C#. It uses a POP3 or IMAP servers as the mailstore and sends mail through a SMTP server. It is very simple to configure (only a few settings in the web.config file). You can compose HTML messages, search your inbox, read complex mime messages, have multiple address books and much more

DotNetOpenMail - SMTP client library for .net, written in C#. Create basic text and html emails with attachments that can be sent via an SMTP server.

Mono - The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by Novell to create a free implementation of the .NET Development Framework.

Microsoft .NET framework - The Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 includes everything you need to run applications built using the .NET Framework 1.1, including the common language runtime (CLR) and class libraries.

Introduction

SharpMimeTools is an open source MIME parser/decoder assembly that is written in C#.

There are two main ways of handling messages with SharpMimeToools, a higher level one that takes case of everything for you (SharpMessage); with just a few parameters to the constructor you get all the hard work done. And a low level api (SharpMimeMessage and the other SharpMime* classes) where you can decide how to handle nested mime parts, mime-types to decode, encodings to use, ...

Currently it fully works under:

Mono 1.0
Mono 1.1
Microsoft .NET framework 1.1
Microsoft .NET framework 2.0

Requisites:

Mono runtime or Microsoft .NET Framework installed.

Feedback:

Bugs: SourceForge's bug tracking system
Feature requests: SourceForge's FR system
Forums: Project forums

Latest News

Wednesday July 05th 2006

Reached 0.6 milestone. So here is a new beta (0.6b). This release is a big step forward as it adds some long-waited cool features (rfc2392, uuencode, tnef), usability improvements and performance gains.

Added RFC 2392 support so now attached images referenced through its CID will be displayed properly. In SharpMessage it can be used through SharpMessage.SetUrlBase.
Added uuencode support. In SharpMessage it's enabled adding SharpDecodeOptions.UuDecode to an appropriate constructor.
Added ms-tnef decoder (SharpTnefMessage). Right now it only extracts attachments. In SharpMessage it's enabled adding SharpDecodeOptions.DecodeTnef to an appropriate constructor.
Fine-grained control over SharpMessage behavior through SharpDecodeOptions enumeration.
The default release build does no-longer depend on log4net nor has logging support. To get that functionality use the release-log build.
SharpAttachment now manages file dates (LastWriteTime and CreationTime) if metadata is available and exposes ContentID, Size and Inline info.
SharpMessage is now able to create destination folders automatically, see:SharpDecodeOptions.CreateFolder
SharpMessage is now able to tag with named anchors each part that has a Content-ID, see:SharpDecodeOptions.NamedAnchors
And a few bugfixes and performance improvements.
Read changelog for full details.

* Some of those new cool features have been possible thanks to an anonymous sponsor ... thanks Boris! for your support :)

Enjoy it.

-- Angel Marin

Thursday April 13th 2006

The development repository has been migrated to Subversion, so the old CVS one has been deprecated. This means that you have to checkout from the new repository, and that you won't suffer anymore from the old CVS delay between developer/anonymous servers.

There are new project and solution files for MonoDevelop and SharpDevelop 2.x commited to svn trunk. The latter use the same format as VS 2005, so they should work also there.

Development instructions have been updated to reflect the changes.

Enjoy it.

-- Angel Marin

Saturday October 29th 2005

Reached 0.5 milestone. So here is a new beta (0.5b). It's a bugfix release.

Read changelog for full details.

Enjoy it.

-- Angel Marin

Wednesday October 19th 2005

Reached 0.4 milestone. So here is a new beta (0.4b). It has new features and fixes.

SharpMessage now allows better control of the attachments. Be careful as the content of SharpMessage.Attachments has changed in an incompatible way.
And a couple bugfixes.
Read changelog for full details.

Enjoy it.

-- Angel Marin

Sunday September 25th 2005

Reached 0.3 milestone. So here is a new beta (0.3b). It has new features, some improvements and fixes.

SharpMessage now allows better control of the content that will be parsed through new constructors.
Give simpler access to headers through the SharpMimeHeader.GetHeaderField and SharpMessage.GetHeaderField methods.
Added a Makefile to ease building in linux.
Added support to files in UNIX format.
Improved buffering in some points and use lazy allocation of resources in others. This gives a significant performance boost compared to 0.2b.
EncodingDefault makes possible to override the encoding used when there is no charset parameter in the Content-Type header field.
Improved date parsing.
And a few bugfixes.
Read changelog for full details.

Enjoy it.

-- Angel Marin

Saturday July 16th 2005

Reached 0.2 milestone. This is the first standalone release of SharpMimeTools (it was previously released as part of SharpWebMail). It has new features, some improvements and fixes.

Enjoy it.

-- Angel Marin

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Status

SharpMimeTools is currently in beta stage. There are many things in the todo list before it can be considered complete, and it needs intensive testing in order to consider it stable. I started the project long time ago, but as I develop it in my spare time it has not progressed as fast as I wanted.

If you have bugs, suggestions, patches, or just want to say 'hey! it works' feel free to send me a note or use the appropriate section at SourceForge project site.

-- Angel Marin