ActiveEmail provides an easy-to-use programming interface to SMTP- and POP3 email communications. It's perfectly suited for situations in which e-mails need to be sent/received automatically, in batches, from custom applications, webservers, or from the command-line.
 

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Add SMTP/POP3 capabilities to any Windows or .NET application

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Add SMTP/POP3 capabilities to any Windows or .NET application

ActiveEmail provides an easy-to-use programming interface to SMTP- and POP3 email communications. It's perfectly suited for situations in which e-mails need to be sent/received automatically, in batches, from custom applications, webservers, or from the command-line.

  • Easy to use API
  • Send using SMTP
  • Receive using POP3
  • Secure (TLS/SSL) and non-secure
  • Support for advanced mailing features
  • 32-bit ActiveX and 64-bit ActiveX included
  • Samples available in C#, VB, ASP.NET, HTML, PHP, Javascript, Delphi and more
How to use ActiveEmail Visual Studio.NET Web Application GUI Application Console Application
Startup screen MS Visual Studio .NET web application .NET GUI application Console application

Features

E-mail features

ActiveEmail Toolkit features the following:

  • Send messages using SMTP;
  • Receive messages using POP3;
  • Secure SMTP and POP3 (TLS/SSL);
  • Multiple recipients (To, CC, BCC);
  • Multiple Attachments (ASCII and binary);
  • Rich Text message body formatting (HTML);
  • Embedded objects in message body, like sounds, images, etc.;
  • Multiple character sets (to support foreign languages), including Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Russian, Hebrew, Vietnames and many more;
  • SMTP authorization, supporting AUTH PLAIN, AUTH LOGIN and AUTH CRAM-MD5 login algorithms;
  • POP3 authorization, supporting Plain text and APOP3 authorization;
  • POP3 header download;
  • Load and save (import and export) MIME (.mim) files;
  • Mailqueue to improve performance of scripts;
  • Support for 7/8 bit, quoted-printable and base64 encoding;
  • Detailed error descriptions;
  • Advanced tracing (for troubleshooting purposes);
  • Windows Event Logging;

Samples

Sample are provided for many development platforms, including:

Samples are included with the product, but can also be downloaded from our FTP site.

System Requirements

ActiveEmail is available as a 32-bit component and as a 64-bit component (both part of the product):

  • AEmail.dll - 32-bit component;
  • AEmailx64.dll - 64-bit component.

ActiveEmail runs on the following Operating Systems:

  • Windows 2008 (32 and 64 bit);
  • Windows 2003 (32 and 64 bit);
  • Windows 2000 Server and Professional (32 bit only);
  • Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit);
  • Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit);
  • Windows XP (32 and 64 bit).

Code Snippets and Sample Applications

The following code snippets (VBScript) illustrate how to use ActiveEmail.

SMTP: Send a plain text e-mail to a single recipient

Set objSmtpServer         = CreateObject("ActiveEmail.Smtp")      ' Create SMTP object
Set objSmtpMail           = CreateObject("ActiveEmail.EMailMessage") ' Create e-mail object 

objSmtpServer.Connect( "smtp.mydomain.com" )  
Wscript.Echo "Connect, result: " & objSmtpServer.LastError

' Set mail properties
objSmtpMail.FromAddress   = "sender@mydomain.com"                 ' Sender's e-mail address
objSmtpMail.FromName      = "ActiveEmail Demo"                    ' Sender's displayname
objSmtpMail.Subject       = "ActiveEmail Message"                 ' Subject
objSmtpMail.BodyPlainText = "Hello, world"                        ' Body
objSmtpMail.AddTo "recipient1@myrecipients.com", "Recipient 1"    ' Add a recipient
      
objSmtpServer.Send( objSmtpMail )                                 ' Send now 
WScript.Echo "Send, result: " & objSmtpServer.LastError
WScript.Echo "Last response: " & objSmtpServer.LastSmtpResponse 
     
objSmtpServer.Disconnect                                          ' Finally, disconnect

Licensing

  Standard License
AX002-0010		 Professional License
AX002-0012		 Distribution License
AX002-0020
Send e-mail via SMTP X X X
Receive e-mail via POP3 - X X
Use on any company computer - X X
Distribution of component - - X

For detailed licensing information, please click here.

More information

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