What methods are there for having .NET code run and handle e-mails as they arrive?

Question

I\'ve been tasked with creating some sort of service that will take any e-mail sent to an e-mail address and handle the contents of the e-mail (including binary attachments.

Answer 1

Some of the .net components from http://www.quiksoft.com/ might help with your requirement.

The app polls a POP3 mail server every x minutes(s) and works it's way through the messages in the queue, and deletes them when it's processed each msg.

The QuikSoft tools also provide ways to parse the emails to get the content from each msg.