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Tamas,
Looks easy enough.
Wish I knew what I was doing.
Thanks,
Ray




On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:42:37 +0100, Tamas Rudnai wrote:
>=A0Take a look at that RFC I have mentioned.
>
>=A0ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1225.txt
>
>
>=A0They wrote an example POP3 Session, I had extended it a bit with
>=A0some comments for you:
>
>=A0S: <wait for connection on TCP port 110>
>=A0...
>=A0C: <open connection>
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK dewey POP3 server ready (Comments to:
>=A0PostMaster@UDEL.EDU) C: =A0 =A0USER mrose S: =A0 =A0+OK mrose is a re=
al
>=A0hoopy frood C: =A0 =A0PASS secret
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK mrose's maildrop has 2 messages (320 octets) C: =A0 =A0=
STAT
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK 2 320
>
>=A0now you know you have two messages in the server...
>
>=A0C: =A0 =A0LIST
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK 2 messages (320 octets)
>=A0S: =A0 =A01 120
>=A0S: =A0 =A02 200
>
>=A0OK, so you know the size of the messages, you can select any
>=A0message that exceeds the size of x to be deleted, or read it:
>
>=A0S: =A0 =A0.
>=A0C: =A0 =A0RETR 1
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK 120 octets
>=A0S: =A0 =A0<the POP3 server sends message 1>
>=A0S: =A0 =A0.
>
>=A0...or use TOP command:
>
>=A0C: =A0 =A0TOP 1
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK
>=A0S: =A0 =A0<the POP3 server sends the headers of the
>=A0message, a blank line, and the first 10 lines of the body of the
>=A0message>=A0S: =A0 =A0.
>
>=A0Now delete that message
>
>=A0C: =A0 =A0DELE 1
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK message 1 deleted
>
>=A0...and continue iteration till you have finished with all mails...
>
>=A0C: =A0 =A0RETR 2
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK 200 octets
>=A0S: =A0 =A0<the POP3 server sends message 2>
>=A0S: =A0 =A0.
>=A0C: =A0 =A0DELE 2
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK message 2 deleted
>=A0C: =A0 =A0QUIT
>=A0S: =A0 =A0+OK dewey POP3 server signing off (maildrop empty) C: =A0<c=
lose
>=A0connection>=A0S: =A0<wait for next connection>
>
>=A0That's as simple as that, just a matter of text parsing and to
>=A0conversion from ascii to numeric (number of messages, size etc)
>
>=A0Regards,
>
>=A0Tamas





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