What is MailKit?
It is a cross-platform mail client library built on top of MimeKit. The main goal of this project is to provide the .NET world with robust, fully featured and RFC-compliant SMTP, POP3, and IMAP client implementations.
MailKit is a tool in the Email API category of a tech stack.
MailKit is an open source tool with 5.9K GitHub stars and 800 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to MailKit's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses MailKit?
Companies
Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use MailKit.
MailKit Integrations
MailKit's Features
- SASL Authentication
- Supports S/MIME v3.2
- Supports OpenPGP
- Supports DKIM-Signatures
- Supports ARC signatures
- All API's that might block allow canellation via CancellationToken
- All API's that perform I/O have async variants
- Client-side sorting and threading of messages
- Supports .NET 4.5, .NETStandard 1.3, .NETStandard 1.6, .NETStandard 2.0, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, Windows Phone 8.1, and more
MailKit Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to MailKit?
Postal
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JavaScript
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Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
