UltimateMail Features

This topic outlines some important general features of ComponentPro UltimateMail.

Managing Mail with IMAP

• Downloads mail to a disk or stream.
• Downloads an entire message, or message header only.
• Uploads message easily with a single line of code.
• Uploads message from a file on disk or stream.
• Retrieves message list filled with the specified info, such as size, sequence number, unique ID or headers.
• Copies messages.
• Deletes messages.
• Multiple operations support.
• Supports both synchronous and asynchronous operations, such as upload, download, retrieving message list, etc.
• Trace log support.
• Mail retrieve monitoring support with progress event.

Receiving Mail with POP3

• Downloads mail to a disk or stream.
• Downloads an entire message, or message header only.
• Retrieves message list filled with the specified info, such as size, sequence number, unique ID or headers.
• Supports POP3 extensions (automatically detects and uses).
• Sends custom command to the server.
• Synchronously or asynchronously retrieves mail.
• Compliant with RFC 1939, 2449, 1734, 1321, 2195, etc.
• Trace log support.
• Mail retrieve monitoring support with progress event.

Sending Mail with SMTP

• Sends mail with a single line of code.
• Sends mail from a file on disk or stream.
• Supports SMTP extensions (automatically detects and uses).
• Synchronously or asynchronously sends messages.
• Chunking and pipelining support for sending multiple messages to improve performance.
• Sends custom command to the server.
• Fully supports DSN (Delivery Status Notification).
• Compliant with RFC 2821, 1891, 1893, 1985, 2034, 2197, 2554, 3030, etc.
• Encrypts outbound Secure MIME (S/MIME) messages.
• Trace log support.
• Mail send monitoring support with progress event.

Secure MIME (S/MIME) Support

• Loads and saves MIME message.
• Text and HTML message body.
• Supports Outlook MSG format.
• Reads mail message from a disk file or stream.
• Writes mail message to a disk file or stream.
• Parser accepts many damaged messages.
• Automatically detects character set.
• Message header can be accessed easily.
• Attachment can be saved/added to/from a file or stream.
• Serialization support.
• Message signing and signature validation.
• Encrypts and decrypts message.
• Compliant with RFC 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2822, 1847, 3217, 3370, 3852, 3851, 3850, etc.

Security Support

• DES, RC4 or AES encryption/decryption support.
• X509 Certificate Management, validation, data signature/verification and encryption/decryption.
• Message signing and signature validation.
• Supports Secure MIME (S/MIME).

Other Features

• Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
• Uniform and comprehensive error handling with .NET exceptions.

Support

• Royalty free run-time.
• 1 year minor and major product updates.
• Full Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 support.
• Supports Visual Studio, Xamarin Studio, Delphi, C# Builder and other compliant development environments.
• Full ClickOnce support.
• UltimateMail can be used from ASP.NET web pages, Windows Forms, WPF, Web Services, etc.
• Supports .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2 and above.
• Supports .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5, and 3.9.
• Supports Xamarin.Android 4 and above.
• Supports Xamarin.iOS 6, 7 and above.
• Supports Mono 2.1, 3.x on Linux and Apple's OSX.

.NET Technology

• 100% managed code written in C# (Complete source code included in the Gold License with Source Code).
• CLS compliant (Common Language Specification).
• Object-oriented design created specifically for .NET Framework version 2.x and above.
• Does not use unsafe blocks for minimal permission requirements.
• Seamless integration with the .NET base class libraries.
• Documentation fully integrated into Visual Studio .NET.
• C# and VB.NET samples included in the setup package show how to work with UltimateMail.