The World-Renowned Open Source Evangelist, Eric S. Raymond, has made a
very complete package that is called fetchmail. It's included in your
Linux-Mandrake CD (and in any distro I believe).
The official home page of fetchmail is here:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/
You can either use it as a basis of your project, or, better challenge,
get fetchmail and improve it ;-)
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 01:04:38 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] email app programming
>
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me or put me onto some good reference
> material....
>
> As a personal project I am trying to build a console-based email
> program which will pull mail from an outside POP3 server...
>
> Using some info I found in a POP3 RFC -- I can telnet my POP3
> server on port 110 and get a list of messages and then
> retrieve them to a telnet logfile easily...
>
> What I cannot figure out is how to post process that telnet logfile
> and split the messages up -- then send them to
> /var/spool/mail/user to be read by pine or some other mail
> app...with the proper permissions and so on...
>
> Can anyone point me to a reference or sample source code that
> might help??
>
> Thanks--
>
> James L Rooker
>
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