MailKitSimplified

Sending and receiving emails sounds simple, after all, electronic mail existed decades before the Internet. If you're looking for a an all-in-one .NET solution for email, you'll quickly discover MailKit is recommended by even the likes of Microsoft due to how it implements the RFC standard. Unfortunately the downside of doing it all is that MailKit can be difficult to set up and use, especially the first time you go to try something like checking attachments or writing a reply. The aim of this package is to make sending (and receiving) emails as simple as possible!

Sending an email is now as easy as:

await writeEmail.To("test@localhost").SendAsync();

MailKitSimplified.Sender Usage

Setup

If you're not familiar with dependency injection then you can specify the SMTP host address like this:

using var smtpSender = SmtpSender.Create("smtp.example.com");

An email sender must have a SMTP host address, and sometimes a port number, but leaving the port as the default value of 0 will normally choose the right port automatically (e.g. 25). Most companies use LDAP or something similar for behind-the-scenes authentication, but if not you can specify a network credential too.

Sending Mail

var email = smtpSender.WriteEmail .From("me@example.com") .To("you@example.com") .Subject("Hi") .Body("~"); await email.SendAsync();

Any configuration issues will throw an exception, but you can also opt to just log any exceptions and continue with a false output:

bool isSent = await smtpSender.WriteEmail .From("me@example.com", "My Name") .To("you@example.com", "Your Name") .Cc("friend1@example.com") .Bcc("friend2@example.com") .Subject("Hey You") .Body($"Hello at {DateTime.Now}.") .Attach("C:/Temp/attachment1.txt", "C:/Temp/attachment2.pdf") .Attach("./attachment3.docx") .TrySendAsync(); _logger.LogInformation("Email {result}.", isSent ? "sent" : "failed to send");

Further examples (detailed MailKit SMPT server logs etc.) can be found in MailKitSimplifiedSenderUnitTests and the example solution file.

Dependency Injection

This is recommended over manual setup as the built-in garbage collector will handle lifetime and disposal.

using MailKitSimplified.Sender.Extensions; IHost host = Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args) .ConfigureServices((context, services) => { services.AddHostedService<ExampleNamespace.Worker>(); services.AddMailKitSimplifiedEmailSender(context.Configuration); }) .Build(); await host.RunAsync();

You'll also need the following in appsettings.json:

{ "EmailSender:SmtpHost": "smtp.example.com" }

Other optional settings include SmtpPort, ProtocolLog, SmtpCredential:UserName and SmtpCredential:Password.

Now you can use the fully configured IEmailSender or IEmailWriter anywhere you want with no other setup! For example:

public class EmailService { private readonly IEmailWriter _writeEmail; public EmailService(IEmailWriter emailWriter) { _writeEmail = emailWriter; } }

That's how sending an email can become as simple as one line of code.

await _writeEmail.To("test@localhost").SendAsync();

MailKitSimplified.Receiver Usage

Setup

If you're not familiar with dependency injection then just use this:

using var imapReceiver = ImapReceiver.Create("imap.example.com", 0, "U5ern@me", "P@55w0rd");

An email receiver must have a IMAP host address, a network credential (unless you're using something like smtp4dev), and sometimes a port number, but leaving the port as the default value of 0 will normally choose the right port automatically.

Receiving Mail

var mailboxReceiver = imapReceiver .ReadFrom("INBOX") .Skip(0) .Take(10); var mimeMessages = await mailboxReceiver.GetMimeMessagesAsync(); var mimeMessageQueue = await imapReceiver .ReadFrom("INBOX") .GetMimeMessagesAsync();

Further examples (detailed MailKit IMAP server logs etc.) can be found in the 'samples' and 'tests' folders.