MailBee.NET Security Component

MailBee.NET Security allows components ofMailBee.NET Objects family to communicate with TLS/SSL enabled mail servers and use S/MIME for e-mail encryption. Backed with commercial-grade support.

Basic functionality (ability to connect to TLS/SSL enabled mail servers) is available for all MailBee.NET components at no additional cost.

Advanced functionality (S/MIME and SSL certificates) can be activated using a license key. The license already comes within MailBee.NET Objects suite. In other cases, it should be purchased separately.

Main classes of Security component are Certificate, CertificateStore, Smime, ClientServerCertificates, Impersonation, Powerup.

MailBee.NET Security can be used in any .NET language including C# and VB.NET. Supported .NET frameworks include .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

MailBee.NET also supports .NET Core 1.0/2.0/3.0/3.1, .NET 5.0-.NET 8.0 and newer including ASP.NET Core and Xamarin, UWP (Universal Windows), Azure.

The component fully supports SSL2, SSL3 and TLS 1.0/1.1/1.2 protocols when communicating with secure SMTP, POP3 and IMAP servers (like Gmail or Hotmail). Both dedicated SSL port and STARTTLS over regular port modes are supported.

S/MIME functionality includes signing, checking signatures, e-mail encrypting and decryption, API for accessing and enumerating certificates and certificate stores in Windows registry and files.

DomainKeys/DKIM functionality allows for validating and creating DK/DKIM signatures which are used by most e-mail providers nowadays to check authenticity of e-mail senders. E-mails signed with DK/DKIM signature are not treated as spam.

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MailBee.NET Security Component fully supports:

Protocols

S/SMTP
S/POP3
S/IMAP

Security

SSL2/SSL3/TLS
S/MIME
DomainKeys/DKIM
FIPS 104-2

Certificates

.CER
.P7B
.PFX
Registry

Servers & Services

MS Exchange
Lotus Notes
GroupWise
IIS SMTP/POP3
IMail
MailEnable
AxiGen
SmarterMail
SurgeMail
MDaemon
Kerio
CommuniGate
hMailServer

Exim
Postfix
Sendmail
Qmail
Courier
Dovecot
Cyrus
Zimbra

GMail
Hotmail
Yahoo

...and any SSL-enabled SMTP/POP3/IMAP servers

Documentation

Live Demos

Knowledge base

MailBee.NET Security Forum

Licensing Info

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Current version: 12.5 Last update: 21 October 2024

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SMIME Object

Encrypt or decrypt e-mails
Sign e-mails with a digital signature
Verify signatures of e-mails

Other Objects

Certificate Object Features

Open certificate from file or memory
Save certificate to file
Validate certificate

CertificateStore Object Features

Open existing or create new certificate store
Save certificate store to file
Enumerate and find certificates in a store
Add or remove certificates in a store

ClientServerCertificates Object Features

Assign the client certificate for TLS/SSL connections
Examine and validate server certificate

DomainKeys Object Features

Sign e-mail with DomainKeys and/or DKIM signature
Verify DomainKeys and/or DKIM signature of e-mail (using SMTP component)

Impersonation Object Features

Impersonate another user

Powerup Object Features

Unlock advanced features of Security component

What's new

Version 12.5

Support for multiple signing certificates in S/MIME.
S/MIME parser can now detect if the message is encrypted or signed when this information is not available in the message headers.
S/MIME can now sign messages using SHA384/SHA512 algorithms.
License key stored in app.config is now recognized by .NET Core builds of MailBee.NET Objects.

Version 12.4

.NET 8.0 officially supported

See Version History for details

Version 12.3.1

Improved conversion of signed/encrypted messages from EML to Outlook MSG.
SHA265RSA support in S/MIME.

Version 12.3

TLS 1.3 support.

Version 12.2

S/MIME verification of attached signatures improved.

Version 12.1

A set of S/MIME methods for encryption/decryption, signature verification, working with certificates in Windows-independent way (can be used in UWP and other non-Win32 environments).
Separate UWP .NET Standard 2.0 edition for UWP apps targeting Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and newer. Has no Win32 dependencies and can be used in UWP Release builds published in Microsoft Store.
Improved support of S/MIME signed/encrypted e-mails converted from Outlook .MSG files with Outlook Converter component.

Version 12.0

.NET Core 2.0 / .NET Standard 2.0 edition revised and improved, including better support of .NET Core 2.1 and 2.2.
.NET Standard 2.0 support in UWP. UWP apps targeting Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and newer can use the fully-functional .NET Standard 2.0 edition of MailBee.NET Objects.
Improved support of TLS 1.2, now it's selected automatically if supported by the server.
The ability to automatically DKIM sign each outgoing mail message (MailMessage.SetDomainKeysSignOnSend property).
Empty headers are now added to the message being sent in case if they are DKIM signed.
S/MIME signatures are now time-stamped by default. Smime.TimestampOnSign property lets you turn this off (as it's a time-consuming network operation).
S/MIME signatures now include full certificate chain, can be turned off with Smime.IncludeWholeChainOnSign property.

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