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MimeKit

Parsing messages

One of the more common operations that MimeKit is meant for is parsing email messages from arbitrary streams. There are two ways of accomplishing this task.

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Using the Load methods

The easiest way is to use one of the Load methods on MimeMessage.

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// Load a MimeMessage from a stream
var message = MimeMessage.Load (stream);
Using MimeParser directly

The second way is to use the MimeParser class. For the most part, using the MimeParser directly is not necessary unless you wish to parse a Unix mbox file stream. However, this is how you would do it:

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// Load a MimeMessage from a stream
var parser = new MimeParser (stream, MimeFormat.Entity);
var message = parser.ParseMessage ();

For Unix mbox file streams, you would use the parser like this:

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// Load every message from a Unix mbox
var parser = new MimeParser (stream, MimeFormat.Mbox);
while (!parser.IsEndOfStream) {
    var message = parser.ParseMessage ();

    // do something with the message
}
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