If you need to work with email in a .NET environment I highly recommend checking out MailKit by Jeffrey Stedfast. MailKit provides a higher level abstraction working across the different email protocols, which is a massive time saver.
MailKit has its own classes for handling Email Addresses. Most notability the MailboxAddress and InternetAddressList classes are returned when parsing a message envelope.
| foreach (var summary in inbox.Fetch(0, -1, MessageSummaryItems.UniqueId | MessageSummaryItems.BodyStructure)) | |
| { | |
| var tos = summary.Envelope.To; | |
| var replyToList = summary.Envelope.ReplyTo; | |
| } |
As powerful as the MailKit constructs are, I typically like to convert any 3rd party types into their .NET framework equivalents. The below extension method adds a ToMailAddressCollection method to MailKit’s InternetAddressList class.
| public static class MailKitExts | |
| { | |
| public static MailAddressCollection ToMailAddressCollection(this InternetAddressList addressList) | |
| { | |
| if(addressList == null) | |
| { | |
| return new MailAddressCollection(); | |
| } | |
| return addressList.Mailboxes.Aggregate(new MailAddressCollection(), (c, r) => { c.Add(new MailAddress(r.Address, r.Name)); return c; }); | |
| } | |
| } |
