search by sender in pop3

Question

hello. I have a problem(again). how do I find one last email from 1 sender in POP3? I didn't find anything in the documentation on this topic(maybe just didn't notice, I'm like that). thanks for your help

Answer 1

POP3 protocol doesn't support searching.

Please note this is not a limitation of Mail.dll client, but of the protocol itself.

Consider using IMAP client:
https://www.limilabs.com/blog/pop3-vs-imap

Searching using IMAP client:
https://www.limilabs.com/blog/how-to-search-imap-in-net

Comments

thanks for such a quick response. the fact is that I have mail that does not support IMAP search (only works with pop3), is there any way to solve this problem? purely theoretically

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No, you'd need to download all emails, parse them and search on client.

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sadly. Thanks you