How to save email body into text file C#

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I'm trying to copy my inbox email to text file then search word in this text file. if this word exist i will use this word to query email-id from db finally forward this mail to this email-id. my problem is i m not able to copy email into text file .

the MSG variable is always empty.

What I have tried:

<pre>using (Pop3Client client = new Pop3Client())
{
    client.Connect("pop.gmail.com", 995, true);
    client.Authenticate("mymail@gmail.com", "pasword", AuthenticationMethod.UsernameAndPassword);

    // Get the number of messages in the inbox
    int messageCount = client.GetMessageCount();

    for (int i = messageCount; i > 0; i--)
    {
        string msg = client.GetMessage(i).MessagePart.GetBodyAsText().ToString();

        System.IO.File.WriteAllText(@"d:\\My File2.log", msg.ToString());
        var body = System.IO.File.ReadLines(@"d:\\My File2.log");
        if (body.Contains("cusotmer ID: X"))
        {
            getemailadress();
            sendemail();
        }
    }
}

Posted 1-May-17 2:51am

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Updated 1-May-17 3:46am

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[no name] 1-May-17 8:54am

So what issue/error you are facing on this?

Member 12140172 1-May-17 9:11am

my issue is the text file is always empty no data in the variable msg

[no name] 1-May-17 9:12am

Di you checked while debug if your "msg" object has values coming in...

CHill60 1-May-17 9:15am

When you debug your code is there anything in msg for any of the iterations of i ? (By the way msg is already a string so you don't need to use msg.ToString()). Why do you start with the last message?
Why bother reading the file again? Just use

if(msg.Contains("customer ID: X"))

... and check your spelling of customer

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-01T03:46:00

The first thing to note is that you are calling File.WriteAllText inside a loop - and that method will always overwrite any existing file content - so after the loop you will always get only the final message that you process.
Second is to see that you are calling Tostring on a string - which does nothing.
Finally, you need to use the debugger to find out what is going on here: we can't do that for you! Start by putting a breakpoint on the line:

int messageCount = client.GetMessageCount();

And run your code. when it stops, single step the line, and look at the count - is it zero? If it is, that's the reason. If not, continue single stepping and look at exactly what is being returned at each stage. It should be fairly obvious where the problem is if you do that, and that should tell you where to start looking to fix it.