Are there .NET Framework methods to parse an email (MIME)?

Question

Is there a class or set of functions built into the .NET Framework (3.5+) to parse raw emails (MIME documents)?

I am not looking for anything fancy or a separate lib

Answer 1

check out our Rebex Secure Mail which includes a (IMHO) decent S/MIME parser. Features include:

• High level MailMessage API (message as seen in common email client)
• Low level MimeMessage API (access to S/MIME internal tree)
• Support for both MIME, S/MIME
• Support for TNEF (winmail.dat) produced by Microsoft Outlook
• Message encryption
• Message signing
• Unicode and internationalization support
• Linked resources list (used for inline CSS and pictures in HTML mails)
• IEnumerable support (needed for LINQ)
• supports all .NET and .NET compact frameworks released until today

The parser is part of Rebex Secure Mail and you can download it here.