How can I take an email as input for a program?

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I’m building a sort of encryption app in C# (windows form) and I’m wanting to email the encrypted image data Byte[] as a string in the body to a predetermined email. I’ve got that much, but how could I take that email body as an input for the decryption side of the program to output the image? In short how can I call the body of an email and use it as a variable in the program?

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I haven’t attempted it yet, I’m having trouble finding material on the web about this subject. Thanks for any help!

Posted 13-Oct-19 6:16am

Ty Lane

Updated 13-Oct-19 6:30am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2019-10-13T06:31:00

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Email - Wikipedia[^] explains the general structure of messages. rfc5322[^] goes into more detail.

Posted 13-Oct-19 6:31am

Richard MacCutchan

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Ty Lane 13-Oct-19 13:12pm

That is not a good reference for interacting with gmail smtp server in c# not does it answer my question.

Richard MacCutchan 13-Oct-19 13:20pm

Your question makes no mention of interacting with gmail SMTP server. Perhaps you need to edit it and explain in more detail exactly what problem you are facing.

Dave Kreskowiak 13-Oct-19 13:47pm

The quality of the answers you get is directly dictated by the quality of the questions you ask.

With better detail of what you're looking for, come more specific and more accurate answers.