sockets

[Larry Forsgren]

Thank you all for your interest in my problems with sockets, I certainly learned something from your replies.   Summarizing the problems I had it was impossible to open a socket to a mail server and then get any more than the initial welcome response from that server until I restarted revolution.   This actually turned out to be one real problem and a stupid mistake working together to thwart my efforts at mail server communication.   In sending commands to the mail server I used linefeed as described in the Revolution documentation    write "command" & linefeed to socket "socket" This certainly does not work on Windows but replacing linefeed with CRLF works just fine as someone pointed out.    write "command" & CRLF to socket "socket"   Correcting the above I have been able to talk to the mail server without problems until I close the socket and attempt to open it again. That does not work and is a Revolution specific problem. Once a socket has been opened and used and it is then closed, it is spent. Whatever clean up, clearing buffers or other things that need to be done in relation to a close socket command, this does not work. I even tried libResetAll. The only workaround I know for the moment is to restart Revolution or the standalone.   I will continue to work and learn more about sockets in Revolution. For the moment I can check if there is mail on a pop3 server using a few lines of Revolution, which is a great promise that there are more exciting things that can be done with sockets.   Thanks   Larry