IMAP, POP3 and SMTP clients for Dart and Flutter email developers.
Available under the commercial friendly MPL Mozilla Public License 2.0.
Add this dependency your pubspec.yaml file:
dependencies:
enough_mail: ^2.1.5
The latest version or enough_mail
is .
Check out the full API documentation at https://pub.dev/documentation/enough_mail/latest/
The high level API abstracts away from IMAP and POP3 details, reconnects automatically and allows to easily watch a mailbox for new messages. A simple usage example for using the high level API:
import 'dart:io';
import 'package:enough_mail/enough_mail.dart';
String userName = 'user.name';
String password = 'password';
void main() async {
await mailExample();
}
/// Builds a simple example message
MimeMessage buildMessage() {
final builder = MessageBuilder.prepareMultipartAlternativeMessage(
plainText: 'Hello world!',
htmlText: '<p>Hello world!</p>',
)
..from = [MailAddress('Personal Name', 'sender@domain.com')]
..to = [
MailAddress('Recipient Personal Name', 'recipient@domain.com'),
MailAddress('Other Recipient', 'other@domain.com')
];
return builder.buildMimeMessage();
}
/// Builds an example message with attachment
Future<MimeMessage> buildMessageWithAttachment() async {
final builder = MessageBuilder()
..from = [MailAddress('Personal Name', 'sender@domain.com')]
..to = [
MailAddress('Recipient Personal Name', 'recipient@domain.com'),
MailAddress('Other Recipient', 'other@domain.com')
]
..addMultipartAlternative(
plainText: 'Hello world!',
htmlText: '<p>Hello world!</p>',
);
final file = File.fromUri(Uri.parse('file://./document.pdf'));
await builder.addFile(file, MediaSubtype.applicationPdf.mediaType);
return builder.buildMimeMessage();
}
/// High level mail API example
Future<void> mailExample() async {
final email = '$userName@$domain';
print('discovering settings for $email...');
final config = await Discover.discover(email);
if (config == null) {
// note that you can also directly create an account when
// you cannot auto-discover the settings:
// Compare the [MailAccount.fromManualSettings]
// and [MailAccount.fromManualSettingsWithAuth]
// methods for details.
print('Unable to auto-discover settings for $email');
return;
}
print('connecting to ${config.displayName}.');
final account =
MailAccount.fromDiscoveredSettings('my account', email, password, config);
final mailClient = MailClient(account, isLogEnabled: true);
try {
await mailClient.connect();
print('connected');
final mailboxes =
await mailClient.listMailboxesAsTree(createIntermediate: false);
print(mailboxes);
await mailClient.selectInbox();
final messages = await mailClient.fetchMessages(count: 20);
messages.forEach(printMessage);
mailClient.eventBus.on<MailLoadEvent>().listen((event) {
print('New message at ${DateTime.now()}:');
printMessage(event.message);
});
await mailClient.startPolling();
// generate and send email:
final mimeMessage = buildMessage();
await mailClient.sendMessage(mimeMessage);
} on MailException catch (e) {
print('High level API failed with $e');
}
}
A simple usage example for using the low level API:
import 'dart:io';
import 'package:enough_mail/enough_mail.dart';
String userName = 'user.name';
String password = 'password';
String imapServerHost = 'imap.domain.com';
int imapServerPort = 993;
bool isImapServerSecure = true;
String popServerHost = 'pop.domain.com';
int popServerPort = 995;
bool isPopServerSecure = true;
String smtpServerHost = 'smtp.domain.com';
int smtpServerPort = 465;
bool isSmtpServerSecure = true;
void main() async {
await discoverExample();
await imapExample();
await smtpExample();
await popExample();
exit(0);
}
Future<void> discoverExample() async {
var email = 'someone@enough.de';
var config = await Discover.discover(email, isLogEnabled: false);
if (config == null) {
print('Unable to discover settings for $email');
} else {
print('Settings for $email:');
for (var provider in config.emailProviders) {
print('provider: ${provider.displayName}');
print('provider-domains: ${provider.domains}');
print('documentation-url: ${provider.documentationUrl}');
print('Incoming:');
print(provider.preferredIncomingServer);
print('Outgoing:');
print(provider.preferredOutgoingServer);
}
}
}
/// Low level IMAP API usage example
Future<void> imapExample() async {
final client = ImapClient(isLogEnabled: false);
try {
await client.connectToServer(imapServerHost, imapServerPort,
isSecure: isImapServerSecure);
await client.login(userName, password);
final mailboxes = await client.listMailboxes();
print('mailboxes: $mailboxes');
await client.selectInbox();
// fetch 10 most recent messages:
final fetchResult = await client.fetchRecentMessages(
messageCount: 10, criteria: 'BODY.PEEK[]');
for (final message in fetchResult.messages) {
printMessage(message);
}
await client.logout();
} on ImapException catch (e) {
print('IMAP failed with $e');
}
}
/// Low level SMTP API example
Future<void> smtpExample() async {
final client = SmtpClient('enough.de', isLogEnabled: true);
try {
await client.connectToServer(smtpServerHost, smtpServerPort,
isSecure: isSmtpServerSecure);
await client.ehlo();
if (client.serverInfo.supportsAuth(AuthMechanism.plain)) {
await client.authenticate('user.name', 'password', AuthMechanism.plain);
} else if (client.serverInfo.supportsAuth(AuthMechanism.login)) {
await client.authenticate('user.name', 'password', AuthMechanism.login);
} else {
return;
}
final builder = MessageBuilder.prepareMultipartAlternativeMessage(
plainText: 'hello world.',
htmlText: '<p>hello <b>world</b></p>',
)
..from = [MailAddress('My name', 'sender@domain.com')]
..to = [MailAddress('Your name', 'recipient@domain.com')]
..subject = 'My first message';
final mimeMessage = builder.buildMimeMessage();
final sendResponse = await client.sendMessage(mimeMessage);
print('message sent: ${sendResponse.isOkStatus}');
} on SmtpException catch (e) {
print('SMTP failed with $e');
}
}
/// Low level POP3 API example
Future<void> popExample() async {
final client = PopClient(isLogEnabled: false);
try {
await client.connectToServer(popServerHost, popServerPort,
isSecure: isPopServerSecure);
await client.login(userName, password);
// alternative login:
// await client.loginWithApop(userName, password); // optional different login mechanism
final status = await client.status();
print(
'status: messages count=${status.numberOfMessages}, messages size=${status.totalSizeInBytes}');
final messageList = await client.list(status.numberOfMessages);
print(
'last message: id=${messageList?.first?.id} size=${messageList?.first?.sizeInBytes}');
var message = await client.retrieve(status.numberOfMessages);
printMessage(message);
message = await client.retrieve(status.numberOfMessages + 1);
print('trying to retrieve newer message succeeded');
await client.quit();
} on PopException catch (e) {
print('POP failed with $e');
}
}
void printMessage(MimeMessage message) {
print('from: ${message.from} with subject "${message.decodeSubject()}"');
if (!message.isTextPlainMessage()) {
print(' content-type: ${message.mediaType}');
} else {
final plainText = message.decodeTextPlainPart();
if (plainText != null) {
final lines = plainText.split('\r\n');
for (final line in lines) {
if (line.startsWith('>')) {
// break when quoted text starts
break;
}
print(line);
}
}
}
}
Check out these related projects:
- enough_mail_html generates HTML out of a
MimeMessage
. - enough_mail_flutter provides some common Flutter widgets for any mail app.
- enough_mail_icalendar for handling calendar invites in emails.
- enough_mail_app aims to become a full mail app.
- enough_convert provides the encodings missing from
dart:convert
.
Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.
Want to contribute? Please check out contribute. This is an open-source community project. Anyone, even beginners, can contribute.
This is how you contribute:
- Fork the enough_mail project by pressing the fork button.
- Clone your fork to your computer:
git clone github.com/$your_username/enough_mail
- Do your changes. When you are done, commit changes with
git add -A
andgit commit
. - Push changes to your personal repository:
git push origin
- Go to enough_mail and create a pull request.
Thank you in advance!
- ✅ IMAP4 rev1 support
- ✅ SMTP support
- ✅ POP3 support
- ✅ MIME parsing and generation support
The following IMAP extensions are supported:
- ✅ IMAP IDLE
- ✅ IMAP METADATA
- ✅ UIDPLUS
- ✅ MOVE
- ✅ CONDSTORE
- ✅ QRESYNC
- ✅ ENABLE
- ✅ QUOTA
- ✅ IMAP Support for UTF-8
- ✅ ESEARCH
- ✅ SORT and THREAD
- ✅ UNSELECT)
- ✅ ESORT and PARTIAL from Contexts
- ✅ List extensions (rfc5258, rfc5819, rfc6154)
The following SMTP extensions are supported:
The following security extensions are supported:
- ✅ Partial signing of messages using DKIM
Character encodings:
- ASCII (7bit)
- UTF-8 (uft8, 8bit)
- ISO-8859-1 (latin-1)
- ISO-8859-2 - 16 (latin-2 - 16)
- Windows-1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254 and 1256
- GB-2312, GBK, GB-18030, Chinese, CSGB-2312, CSGB-231280, CSISO-58-GB-231280, ISO-IR-58, X-Mac-ChineseSimp
- Big5
- KOI8-r and KOI8-u
Transfer encodings:
- Compare issues
- To start check out the package and then run
dart run test
to run all tests. - Public facing library classes are in lib, lib/imap and lib/smtp.
- Private classes are in lib/src.
- Test cases are in test.
- Please file a pull request for each improvement/fix that you are create - your contributions are welcome.
- Check out https://github.com/enough-Software/enough_mail/contribute for good first issues.
- When changing model files, re-run the code generation by calling
dart run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs
.
enough_mail
is licensed under the commercial friendly Mozilla Public License 2.0.