Recommendations for a .NET component to access an email inbox [closed]

Answer 1

You can do this using MailBee.NET Objects: http://www.afterlogic.com/products/net-email-components

While I'd recommend to use IMAP indeed, particularly since it offers IDLE support mentioned here already, you could do the same with POP3. There's a brief description of both the approaches, and a complete sample for IMAP IDLE scenario:

http://www.afterlogic.com/wiki/Getting_notifications_about_new_messages_in_mailbox_%28IMAP_IDLE_and_polling%29

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