In those situations where you need to automatically test the delivery of email , and you are unable to get access to a mail server through an api, what other options do you have to check this delivery automatically? Running a script to open up your mail client and check for mail can be cumbersome and unreliable. One method that I have used successfully has been identifying a mail service that gives access via an Atom or RSS feed.
Googlemail provides a limited but reliable Atom feed for its mail service. Sign in to googlemail account, open another browser tab or window and goto > https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/. You will now see all your unread messages!
Using the .net WebClient class will allow you to input credentials against this url,you can then create an xml object and use the DOM to access particular tags and get the info you require.
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