MailMessage & mime encoded SMTP data

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I am trying to build System.Mail.Mai lMessage object out of mime encoded
SMTP data. I have following questions

Byte[] byteMailData; //mime encoded STMP data for "email with
attachment"

1) MailMessage.Bod y = Convert(byteMai lData);
If I do the above, will MailMessage object extract the Message
BODY, Message HEADER and Attachments automatically.

2) Can MailMessage.Att achemnt() understand MIME encoded attachment
data?
3) Is there a .Net class to decode MIME data?

Thanks
Ramesh

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

Ramesh,

You could not do 1) because you would not be able to assign byteMailData,
which represents an entire message including attachment to just the body
property of a Mailmessage.
For 2), yes the attachment should understand this. I say "should' Because I
am not 100% sure.

For 3) , yes there are custom libraries that encode / decode MIME, but they
are provided by third parties. I have seen at least 2 that are free and
open-source.
Peter

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"as*******@gmai l.com" wrote:

I am trying to build System.Mail.Mai lMessage object out of mime encoded
SMTP data. I have following questions

Byte[] byteMailData; //mime encoded STMP data for "email with
attachment"

1) MailMessage.Bod y = Convert(byteMai lData);
If I do the above, will MailMessage object extract the Message
BODY, Message HEADER and Attachments automatically.

2) Can MailMessage.Att achemnt() understand MIME encoded attachment
data?
3) Is there a .Net class to decode MIME data?

Thanks
Ramesh

[asnowfall]

Thank you
Ramesh