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Product Description

The suite of the Clever Internet components presents the most efficient and convenient way of accessing the Internet resources from your applications.
Using the Clever Internet .NET Suite you can add instant SSL / TLS security to your Internet applications and implement many useful Internet-related features:

Downloading, uploading and submitting of the Internet-resources. Sending and receiving MIME messages. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP and NNTP client / server solutions. SSL / TLS channel with digital certificates support.

What's new

• Visual Studio 2010 beta support was added.
• MS Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 support.
• Windows CE and .NET Compact Framework 3.5 support - Beta, see notes below this document.
• TcpCommandServer - the ability to add custom commands was implemented.
• DNS Server - new Zone Manager allows you to create and modify zone files on the disk.
• ServerGuard component was implemented - brute-force attack blocking, connection flood detecting and many more.
• Int64 support was implemented in all client and server components.
• IMAP Server component was implemented.
• NNTP Server component was implemented.
• Certificate management was improved - creating certificates, certifcate requests, public/private keys.
• EPP client/server components were added.
• AsyncClient - an asynchronous TCP client component.
• EmailValidator and BounceChecker were added.
• New CookieManager component was added.
• Rss component - is used for creating, retrieving, and editing RSS feeds.
• UdpClient, UdpServer components.
• Custom TCP client/server solution with SSL support.
• Server components improvements - local binding, server protection, session timeout.
• SSL improvements - the ability to require client certificate was added, multiple client certificates support was implemented.
• TCP server - the ability to use non-ascii commands was added.
• The Keep-alive feature for all TCP clients.
• The session timeout feature is implemented in TCP server components.

Implemented Features

• Complete Client / Server solutions with full SSL / TLS support for FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 protocols.
• TLS / SSL support for all protocol components.
• The ability to verify the client and server credential and certificates.
• HTTP Client - HTTPS (SSL / TLS) protocol, NTLM and Negotiate authentication were implemented.
• FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP clients - three new TLS modes - implicit, explicit and automatic. STARTTLS command support.
• NTLM authentication for all mail clients was added: POP3, SMTP, IMAP. When the UseSasl option enabled, these components automatically determine and use the most secured authentication method.
• POP3, SMTP clients - working with GMAIL service.
• Fully functional HTTP / HTTPS client.
• FTP Client - SSL / TLS support, the ability to set FTP file attributes and permissions were added. FTP FXP (Site to Site) transfer mode
• FTP Server - custom events for all operations with files and directories on the server, the possibility to customize all file-related operations including compressing and uncompressing functionality. Virtual File System
• Events for implementing the mail sending / receiving progress with the ability to interrupt the process.
• CertManager - creating self-signed certificates, working with any type of certificate store including current user stores, local machine stores, file stores, registry stores and so on.
• MailMessage - allows you to create and parse messages in any email format with file Attachments and Embedded pictures, the ability to determine the attachment size before saving it to the disk.
• POP3 Server - SSL / TLS support, NTLM, APOP and CRAM-MD5 authentication methods, File System message storage were implemented.
• POP3 Client - SSL / TLS support, NTLM and CRAM-MD5 authentication methods were implemented.
• SMTP Server - SSL / TLS support, NTLM, USER/PASS and CRAM-MD5 authentication methods, File System message storage were implemented.
• IMAP Client - obtaining the server Capability list; the FETCH command was improved. Now this command uses the BODY[] parameter instead of RFC822 and does not change implicitly the message /Seen flag in the same way as MS Outlook does.
• IMAP Server - SSL / TLS support, NTLM and CRAM-MD5 authentication methods, shared folders. File System message storage were implemented.
• The whole socket engine was re-designed. The data transferring speed was dramatically improved.
• A set of new demo programs were included in to the Clever Internet .NET Suite installation and also available for downloading separately.
• Web DAV - manages remote files and folders on a web server.
• DNS Query - queries a DNS server for records. This component can retrieve the mail exchange domain (MX records), resolve the host IP, retrieve the information about name servers and many other information from the DNS server.
• DNS Server - implements fully functional DNS server and allows you to both manage handed DNS zones and cache non-authoritative DNS records.
• SMTP Relay - implements a SMTP Relay agent. With SMTP relay, a mail message may pass through a number of intermediate relay or gateway hosts on its path from sender to recipient.
• HTML Parser - parse HTML Tags: links, images, tables, meta tags and many more.
• GZip compressor component - provides compressing / uncompressing feature when transmitting data over the Internet, storing data in to a file, database and many more.
• RSS client - is used for creating, retrieving, and editing RSS feeds.
• Two new Email validation components - allow you to validate recipienta_Ts email address, mailbox availability and also handle bounce emails.
• Trace Logger - provides logging functionality for storing debug information and tracing your code.

Fixed bugs

• FTP Client - "certificate required" error occured when connecting to some FTP SSL servers - fixed.
• FTP Server - unhandled exception occured when closing client connection - fixed.
• MailMessage - message parsing hangs when decoding From: header field - fixed.
• SMTP Client and SMTP Relay - error occured when parsing server capability list with empty authentication method - fixed.
• HTTP Client - some fixes in "chunked" content parsing.
• POP3 Client - the Progress event was not raised while receiving small-size messages - fixed.
• POP3 Client - the Progress event parameters were invalid (BytesProceed > TotalBytes) - fixed.
• FTP Server - sometimes the ConnectionClosed event was not raised - fixed.
• FTP Server - there were problems with using relative paths, '..' and paths over the root folder - fixed.
• Demo version did not work in .NET Framework 2.0 without preinstalled Framework 1.0 - fixed.
• MailMessage - email address parser was fixed.
• Encoder - base64 decoding fixes was added.
• FTP directory parser for unix - the date was parsed incorrectly if there is no year specified - fixed.
• FtpServer.Stop stops listening on port 21 but it does not close the existing connections - fixed.
• FTP client, DataProtection, PassiveMode, UseTls are assigned incorrectly in design-time - fixed.
• SmtpServer - it is impossible to send the AUTH command with the telnet client - fixed.
• HtmlParser - it is impossible to parse HTML tag attributes which are not separated by spaces - fixed.
• MailMessage.EncodeField - there are problems with encoding of long attachment file names - fixed.
• MailMessage - the Progress event works incorrectly when the component encodes the alternative bodies - fixed.
• MailMessage - inline attachments with Content-Type=unknown are parsed incorrectly - fixed.
• Imap4Server - the body structure command works incorrectly - fixed.
• FtpFileHandler - the server does not raise an error when creating new directory with existing name - fixed.
• Http - the ContentType header with trailing white spaces is extracted incorrectly - fixed.
• HttpRequest - fix for building of the HTTP request by HTML.
• MailMessage - the Date header field is encoded incorrectly - fixed;
  Bodies and sub-bodies of multipart messages are extracted incorrectly - fixed.
• TcpCommandServer - the problem with sending of long (which are longer than BatchSize value) lines was fixed.
• The server stopped accepting new commands after exception in user connection - fixed.

Starting from now the HttpMail component was removed from the library. This component handled Microsoft Hotmail protocol. Since this protocol is no longer supported by Microsoft, we decided to remove this component from the Clever Internet Suite. If you want to still use the WebDAV technology, please consider migrating to the WebDAV component.

Compact Framework notes

This is a first edition of the Clever Internet .NET suite with Windows CE support. Currently not all functionality is available in Compact Framework edition. We are planning to implement it in the nearest future. Please feel free to notify us about any problems and ask us any questions you will have. A list of restrictions can be seen below:

• CertificateStore component is not available in Compact Framework edition.
• SmimeMessage component is not available.
• Connecting via SSL / TLS channel is not available.
• NTLM authentication temporarily disabled in both client and server components.
• The installer automatically registers Clever Internet .NET Suite Compact Framework assemblies in GAC, but it does not install components to Visual Studio Toolbox.
• Clever Internet .NET Suite Demos are not yet converted to Windows CE. It is provided for studying purposes.

The Clever Internet Suite components allow you to compose / parse messages in alternative MIME format with multiple file attachments, build and send Web Form POST requests and many other features.

The SMTP, POP3, IMAP and HTTP Mail clients allow you to send and retrieve email messages over the Internet.

The Clever Internet .NET Suite components provide the complete Client / Server solutions for the following Internet protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, FTP and EPP.

All server components represent the fully functional multithreaded servers with an ability to customize the connection settings, supports the most common protocols extensions.

Components can connect to the a server via the Secure Socket Layer (SSL / TLS) channel, and capable of encoding / decoding the message content, sending file attachments and many other useful features.

Also a set of additional classes and components are available: Mail Message, HTTP Request, GZip compressor, MIME Encoder, S/MIME message, HTML Parser. All these component make the application development process easy and clean. You can use these components separately from the main protocol components with any other library and even with your own socket implementation.

Demo version information

Free Demo version of Clever Internet .NET Suite is available for evaluation purposes only. Demo version displays trial warning messages if components are used in GUI applications and raises trial exceptions after several times of using it in non-GUI applications and services, all other features are completely available.

Coming Soon

The following new features will be implemented:

• Server components for HTTP protocol.
• FTP SSH support.
• Existing components improvements.
• Support for ICMP, LDAP, ACAP and other protocols.