Dear all, As you are probably aware, the pop3 interface is currently rather limited in that it only supports the LIST and RETR commands. For example:
pop3://mail.domain.com - LIST (all) pop3://mail.domain.com/3 - LIST (single) for mail 3 when OPT_DIRLISTONLY is specified ; otherwise RETR for mail 3 I am intending to extend this support so that the following additional POP3 commands are supported: UIDL [msg] - Lists all messages UIDs or a specific message's UID information STAT - Retrieves statistics for the connected user TOP [msg] [rows] - Retrieves the header and number of rows specified for the given message - rows can be zero to return just the header part DELE [msg] - Deletes the specified message RSET - Resets the connection to its initial status (undoing any DELE commands) I am proposing that we support both the existing commands as well as the ones above through the following URLs: pop3://mail.domain.com - LIST (all) maintaining compatibility with v7.23.1 pop3://mail.domain.com/list - LIST (all) pop3://mail.domain.com/list/3 - LIST (single) for mail 3 pop3://mail.domain.com/3 - LIST (single) for mail 3 (when OPT_DIRLISTONLY is specified) maintaining compatibility with v7.23.1 pop3://mail.domain.com/stat - STAT pop3://mail.domain.com/top/3 - TOP (header only) for mail 3 pop3://mail.domain.com/top/3?rows=10 - TOP (header + 10 rows of body text) for mail 3 pop3://mail.domain.com/3 - RETR for mail 3 (when OPT_DIRLISTONLY is NOT specified) maintaining compatibility with v7.23.1 pop3://mail.domain.com/retr/3 - RETR for mail 3 pop3://mail.domain.com/dele/3 - DELE for mail 3 pop3://mail.domain.com/rset - RSET I think style wise this is in line with the rest of libcurl and how it handles URLs (from the documentation I have written) but I would really appreciate any input on this before continuing. Kind Regards Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
