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 6.2K GitHub stars and 825 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to MailKit's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses MailKit?
Companies
Developers
19 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
Postal is a complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers. Think Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark but open source and ready for you to run on your own servers. Postal was developed by aTech Media to serve its own mail processing requirements and we have since decided that it should be released as an open source project for the community.
Twilio
Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs.
Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.
Amazon SES
Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.
Mailgun
Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.
