PowerTCP Mail for .NET Product Features

A set of .NET components that seamlessly combine security, efficiency, and ease of use for quickly developing a wide range of email-handling .NET applications.

Send, receive and manage email with standard protocols

• SMTP and POP3 components for sending and receiving email
• IMAP4 component for securely managing messages on any IMAP4server, including GMail
• MIME and S/MIME for encoding anddecoding binary data such as images and applications in messages

Integrate security in email-handling applications

• S/MIME encoder and decoder for full message security
• SSL2, SSL3, PCT, TLS support for stream-level security
• Client-side and server-sideauthentication options
• X509 certificate management

Includes features not found in the .NET Framework

Feature	.NET Framework	PowerTCP Mail for .NET
Supports POP3, IMAP4 and MIME decoding (receiving email)	-
S/MIME encoding and decoding (privacy and authentication)	-
Provides progress for sending and receiving email	-
"On-the-fly" stream encoding and decoding	-
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Efficiency and Stability

• MailMessage class for enhanced authoring and editing
• Stream interface encodes and decodes on-the-fly
• Synchronous and asynchronous operation using worker threads
• Pipelining support for sending multiple messages
• Fully developed in managed C#

Ease-of-use and Flexibility

• Yahoo! Mail and GMail account integration
• Base64, Quoted Printable, UUEncode and Y-encoding support
• Internationalization support for encoding and decoding non-ASCII character sets (Kanji, JIS, Chinese, Arabic, etc.)
• HTML email message creation from HTML documents in one line of code
• S/MIME and MIME format conversion with a single method call
• Many sample projects for both C# and VB.NET, as well as ASP.NET included