The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
Question: Is it possible to delete email sitting on the POP3 server based on its age? For example, have it only delete mail from server older than 5 days. Answer: The POP3 protocol itself does not have the direct ability to delete email based on date/time (or any other selection criteria). The POP3 protocol only […]
Question: I would like to use your product to process mail on an MS Exchange server. Which product should I use; Chilkat MAIL or Chilkat IMAP? I saw in your examples that I can use both to connect to an Exchange server MAIL with Pop3 and IMAP for a direct login on the server but […]
Question: Our problem that in the POP3 incoming account there are 400 mails but the developer’s UIDL query can see only the first 251 mails and downloads only 251 mails. Answer: There may be several common reasons. The first thing to do is to verify number of emails in the mailbox by calling the mailman.GetMailboxCount […]
The most common problem with reading email from GMail using Chilkat’s POP3 and IMAP API’s is the following: The user can see certain emails when interactively logged onto GMail with a web browser, but cannot see those emails using Chilkat’s POP3 or IMAP component. The problem is caused by a setting in your GMail account. […]
The following mailman methods use the X-UIDL email header as the means to identify the email to be downloaded or deleted from a POP3 server: GetFullEmail DeleteEmail DeleteBundle If no X-UIDL header is found within the email, then it is not possible to determine the sequence number of the email to be downloaded or deleted. […]
Question: We are currently using Chilkat to retrieve e-mail for a number of our applications. A client of ours has updated their exchange mail server and they have disabled the pop3 service because of authentication issues (the user/password is sent unencrypted and would be a threat). Are there any other possibilities within the scope of […]
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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 […]
If you see this error when trying to login to a POP3 server, it most likely means that the server is only allowing a single connection (i.e. session) at a time for each mailbox, and than another user already has mailbox open. It could also mean that the POP3 administrator temporarily locked the mailbox to […]
Question: I am reading my POP3 mailbox by calling mailman.CopyMail. It returns a bundle object, but the bundle.MessageCount = 0. I know there are emails in the mailbox. What happened? Answer: The most common mistake is that you’re looking at your email using a program such as Outlook and your emails have already been downloaded […]
