My simple POP3 client (set up for Gmail) isn't downloading all of my messages...
Any idea why?

I have 350 messages in my inbox and the program only says 296 of them show up.

Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Net.Security;
using System.IO;
using System.Data;

namespace POP3Sharp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            PopGmail mail = new PopGmail();
            Console.Write("Email: ");
            string email = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.Write("Password: ");
            string password = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("Connecting.");
            if (!mail.Connect("pop.gmail.com", 995))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Connect failed, attempted connection to pop.gmail.com on port 995 (client).");
                return;
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Connected.");
            if (!mail.Login(email, password))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Login failed, valid username/pass? POP3 enabled on gmail settings?");
                return;
            }

            int messageCount = mail.GetMailCount();
            Console.WriteLine("Number of email messages reported: " + messageCount.ToString());

            //for(int i = 1; i <= messageCount; i++)
            //{
            //    byte[] bt = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(mail.GetMessage(i));
            //    FileStream fs = new FileStream("Emails\\" + i.ToString() + ".txt", System.IO.FileMode.Create);
            //    fs.Write(bt, 0, bt.Length);
            //    fs.Close();
            //}

            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
            Console.ReadKey();
            mail.Disconnect();
        }
    }
}

and more importantly,
POPGmail.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Security;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Web;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace POP3Sharp
{
    class PopGmail
    {
        TcpClient m_tcpClient = new TcpClient();
        SslStream m_sslStream;
        int m_mailCount;
        byte[] m_buffer = new byte[8172];

        public PopGmail()
        {
            m_mailCount = -1;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Connect to pop3 server "host" using "port" and auth SSL as client.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="host"></param>
        /// <param name="port"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public bool Connect(string host, int port)
        {
            m_tcpClient.Connect(host, port);
            m_sslStream = new SslStream(m_tcpClient.GetStream());
            m_sslStream.AuthenticateAsClient(host);
            // Read the stream to make sure we are connected
            int bytes = m_sslStream.Read(m_buffer, 0, m_buffer.Length);
            return (Encoding.ASCII.GetString(m_buffer, 0, bytes).Contains("+OK"));
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Closes SSL and TCP connections.
        /// </summary>
        public void Disconnect()
        {
            //if(m_tcpClient.Connected)
            //    m_sslStream.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("QUIT\r\n"));
            m_sslStream.Close();
            m_tcpClient.Close();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Logs into the pop3 server (when connected.)
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="username"></param>
        /// <param name="password"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public bool Login(string username, string password)
        {
            if (!m_tcpClient.Connected)
                return false;
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(username) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(password))
                throw new ArgumentException("Username or Password was empty.");

            int bytesRead = -1;
            //Send the users login details
            m_sslStream.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("USER " + username + "\r\n"));
            bytesRead = m_sslStream.Read(m_buffer, 0, m_buffer.Length);
            if (!Encoding.ASCII.GetString(m_buffer, 0, bytesRead).Contains("+OK"))
                return false;

            //Send the password                        
            m_sslStream.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("PASS " + password + "\r\n"));
            bytesRead = m_sslStream.Read(m_buffer, 0, m_buffer.Length);
            if (!Encoding.ASCII.GetString(m_buffer, 0, bytesRead).Contains("+OK"))
                return false;
            return true;

        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the number of emails in the inbox.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public int GetMailCount()
        {
            m_sslStream.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("STAT\r\n"));
            int bytesRead = m_sslStream.Read(m_buffer, 0, m_buffer.Length);
            string data = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(m_buffer, 0, bytesRead);
            //char [] str = Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(m_buffer);
            //string data = str.ToString();
            if (data.Contains("+OK"))
            {
                data = data.Remove(0, 4);
                string [] temp = data.Split(' ');
                int r;
                if (Int32.TryParse(temp[0], out r))
                {
                    m_mailCount = r;
                    return r;
                }
            }
            return -1;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the message data as a string.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="messageNumber"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public string GetMessage(int messageNumber)
        {
            string ret = "";
            m_sslStream.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("RETR " + messageNumber.ToString() + "\r\n"));

            int bytesRead = -1;
            while (bytesRead != 0 && !ret.Contains("\r\n.\r\n"))
            {
                bytesRead = m_sslStream.Read(m_buffer, 0, m_buffer.Length);
                ret += Encoding.ASCII.GetString(m_buffer, 0, bytesRead);
            }

            ret = ret.Remove(0, ret.IndexOf("\r\n") + 2);

            return ret;
        }
    }
}

All of the messages were sent in 2011.

evry1falls commented: Very helpful, i'm using it to develop a vb.net app. +0

I still haven't figured out how to make it work.
:(

May I suggest the OpenPOP library? I've used it in several projects and haven't had any problems yet.

May I suggest the OpenPOP library? I've used it in several projects and haven't had any problems yet.

The problem isn't POP it's gmail.

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