ImapQuickDownloadMessage Method (String, String, String, String, Int32)
Completely downloads the specified message from the specified folder on the server, in a single line of code.

Namespace: MailBee.ImapMail
Assembly: MailBee.NET (in MailBee.NET.dll) Version: 12.4 build 677 for .NET 4.5
Syntax
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public static MailMessage QuickDownloadMessage(
	string serverName,
	string accountName,
	string password,
	string folderName,
	int messageNumber
)

Parameters

serverName
Type: SystemString
The name or IP address of the IMAP4 server.
accountName
Type: SystemString
The user account name on the server.
password
Type: SystemString
The password of the user account on the server.
folderName
Type: SystemString
The full name of the folder to download the message from.
messageNumber
Type: SystemInt32
The ordinal position of the message in the folder, starting at 1 (can be negative, i.e. -1 denotes the last e-mail in the inbox).

Return Value

Type: MailMessage
A MailMessage object containing the downloaded message (including the header and all the body parts and attachments).
Exceptions
ExceptionCondition
MailBeeExceptionAn error occurred.
Remarks

This method does not delete any messages in the folder.

An account on the mail server is guaranteed to contain at least "Inbox" folder. The "Inbox" name is case-sensitive ("Inbox", "inbox", and "INBOX" are equivalent). Other folder names, however, may be case-senstive depending on the server implementation.

The common use of this method is to quickly receive the message when its index in the folder is already known. For instance, QuickDownloadMessages(String, String, String, String, Int32) method was used to download headers for all messages in the folder and build the message list where the user can click a particular message to view it completely. Once the user selected the message to be viewed, the application passes its index in the message list as a value of messageNumber parameter of QuickDownloadMessage(String, String, String, String, Int32, Int32) method to download the selected message (if the message list index is zero-based, the developer should also add 1 to the messageNumber value).

Note Note
Static methods still require the valid license key be assigned to MailBee.Global.LicenseKey property (by either setting in in the code or in the config file such as app.config). All samples in MailBee documentation assume the license key is already set in the config file.

This method is not async, it's recommended (and in case of UWP platform it's mandatory) to use sync methods like DownloadEntireMessageAsync(Int64, Boolean).

Examples
This sample downloads the first message in the inbox and saves it as .EML file to disk.
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// To use the code below, import MailBee namespaces at the top of your code.
using MailBee;
using MailBee.ImapMail;
using MailBee.Mime;

// The actual code (put it into a method of your class).
MailMessage msg = Imap.QuickDownloadMessage("imap.domain.com",
    "login@domain.com", "password", "Inbox", 1);
msg.SaveMessage(@"C:\Temp\message.eml");
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