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Making E-mail Better

We developers tend to be a bit starry-eyed about the Internet. Admit it, if you had your druthers you'd be writing for RSS or web services or quantum-encrypted telepathy. But the hard fact of the matter is that e-mail still rules.

Microsoft included e-mail facilities in .NET. However, if you really want to make e-mail sit up and sing, you're going to want more. Afterlogic's MailBee.NET Objects may not include quantum telepathy, but it's got just about everything else you could think of to craft e-mail-enabled applications without having to reinvent sendmail.

First off, true to the spirit of .NET, you're not language-limited. If you crave an eyeful of Eiffel and want your apps to send e-mail, MailBee can do that. It also supports .NET 1.1 and 2.0. Protocols supported include POP3, SMTP, ESMTP (automatically detected and used if available), MIME, XML, HTML, and MHTML.

Heading outbound, SMTP support handles things like multiple servers and relay servers (spammers, please stop reading here), as well as the ability to send a message with a single line of code. Coming in, MailBee's POP3 support handles a variety of authentication methods and can detect and use POP3 extensions automatically. MailBee gives you a MailMessage object for both sending and receiving mail. MailBee .NET Objects 1.0 is priced at $99 for a single-developer, royalty-free license.


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