Parsing email body with c#
I have a database table of email called email_archive. The table includes a field called body and another called raw_headers. I want to display the contents of this table on screen using C# (in a SharePoint webpart). I've been trying to find a library that can parse the body so that I can return the parts of the message to the window. I've tried a library from Limilabs as well as downloaded a couple of other libraries. However, all appear to require an email in EML format at the very minimal.
The latest attempt was trying to use MailUtilies.
MimeMessage mm = new MimeMessage(header + message);
But this is failing because it appears the format is not passing the MimeMessage integrity check.
Does anyone know of a way to parse an email into it's component parts using the raw headers and body content.
The headers look like this
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from server.domain.com (10.20.205.104) by
mail.domain.com (xx.xx.xx.xx) with Microsoft SMTP Server id
8.1.436.0; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:33:54 -0700
Received: from server (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by
server.domain.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r8GLX4vm007046 for
<[email protected]>; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:33:04 -0700
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:33:04 -0700
Subject: Some Topic
Thread-Topic: Some Topic
Thread-Index: Ac6zJHFgOvb7ZAdeTJC8DzqnAvdnOw==
Message-ID: <153372.442207427-sendEmail@gserver>
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Internal
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthMechanism: 10
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: mail.domain.com
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_000_153372442207427sendEmailgroundwork_"
And the message looks something like this
--_000_153372442207427sendEmailgroundwork_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Some message to dispaly
--_000_153372442207427sendEmailgroundwork_
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<html><head><style type=3D'text/css'> p,h1 { font-family: arial; }
</style></head><body>
<p>Some message to display</p>
</body></html>
--_000_153372442207427sendEmailgroundwork_--
Answer
I found the answer by using a library using OpenPop.Net.
public void addMessage(string message, string header) {
string full_body = header + "\n" + message;
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
Byte[] full_body_bytes = encoding.GetBytes(full_body);
Message mm = new Message(full_body_bytes);
//do stuff here.
}