If the Imap.AutoDownloadAttachments property is set to false, or if headers-only are downloaded, then emails will be downloaded without attachments. However, attachment information, such as the count, and the size and filename of each attachment is still available. When an email is downloaded from an IMAP server without the attachment data, the attachment information is added as headers to the […]
Question: I have downloaded the Chilkat Email component for POP3/SMTP. When I tried to send email by attaching a file of size of 2 MB, the email is not been sent. Could you please let me know how I can send large size attachments using the Chilkat component? Answer: There is no limitation in the Chilkat Email component. It can […]
The following is a list of the most common mistakes made when expecting to find an attachment in an email object: You downloaded headers-only. If you call a method to download only the headers of an email, then the attachments will not be included. With IMAP you will still get information about the attachments, but with POP3 you will not […]
The POP3 protocol is not very feature rich. To download an email “header” the POP3 client must issue a “TOP” command. The following text is from RFC 1939 and describes the response to the TOP command: … After the initial +OK, the POP3 server sends the headers of the message, the blank line separating the headers from the body, and […]