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Jeffrey Stedfast

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Boston, MA, USA

Hi, I'm Jeff and my passion is email.

While in college, I wrote my first real email program, Spruce. I dropped out of college a year later to join a software start-up called Ximian to work on the Evolution project which had the ambitious goal of bringing an Open Source Outlook clone to Linux. I learned a lot during my time there and wrote a library called GMime that made it possible for a number of Open Source C/C++ projects to read and write MIME messages.

Fast forward to 2013 when I began implementing my 2 most popular Open Source projects, MimeKit and MailKit. These projects bring support for MIME, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP to the .NET world, making it possible for thousands of .NET developers to finally have access to email capabilities. For free!

Your sponsorship will help fund continuous improvement to these libraries, documentation, web hosting and more.

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Featured work

  1. jstedfast/MailKit

    A cross-platform .NET library for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.

    C# 6,254
  2. jstedfast/MimeKit

    A .NET MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, DKIM, TNEF and Unix mbox spools.

    C# 1,849
  3. jstedfast/EmailValidation

    A simple (but correct) .NET class for validating email addresses

    C# 275
  4. jstedfast/HtmlKit

    A cross-platform .NET framework for parsing HTML

    HTML 81

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You value great open source libraries like MimeKit and MailKit and want to show your gratitude by treating my fiancée and I to a monthly subscription of Netflix.

A few nights a month spent watching romantic movies with her will go a long way toward helping her forgive me for spending so much of my free time working on my open source projects.