I'm trying to learn how to use the MailKit library but I am struggling to retrieve attachments. So far my code will open a mailbox, go through each message and store data such as sender, subject, body, date etc. but I can't deal with attachments.
I have tried to use other peoples solutions found on here, on github and other sites but I still don't understand exactly what they are doing in their code and when I come close to getting a solution working it causes more bugs so I get stressed and delete all the code. I don't mean to seem lazy but I would love if somebody could explain how I can achieve this. I'm basically trying to build a mail client for a web forms app.
Below is my code, so as you can see I'm fairly clueless :)
// Open the Inbox folder
client.Inbox.Open(FolderAccess.ReadOnly, cancel.Token);
//get the full summary information to retrieve all details
var summary = client.Inbox.Fetch(0, -1, MessageSummaryItems.Full, cancel.Token);
foreach (var msg in summary)
{
//this code originally downloaded just the text from the body
var text = msg.Body as BodyPartText;
//but I tried altering it so that it will get attachments here also
var attachments = msg.Body as BodyPartBasic;
if (text == null)
{
var multipart = msg.Body as BodyPartMultipart;
if (multipart != null)
{
text = multipart.BodyParts.OfType<BodyPartText>().FirstOrDefault();
}
}
if (text == null)
continue;
//I hoped this would get the messages where the content dispositon was not null
//and let me do something like save the attachments somewhere but instead it throws exceptions
//about the object reference not set to an instance of the object so it's very wrong
if (attachments.ContentDisposition != null && attachments.ContentDisposition.IsAttachment)
{
//I tried to do the same as I did with the text here and grab the body part....... but no
var attachedpart = client.Inbox.GetBodyPart(msg.Index, attachments, cancel.Token);
}
else
{
//there is no plan b :(
}
// this will download *just* the text
var part = client.Inbox.GetBodyPart(msg.Index, text, cancel.Token);
//cast main body text to Text Part
TextPart _body = (TextPart)part;
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