in mail #775, abhir joshi had described some of the pop3 arguments (e.g.
USER,
PASS, LIST, DELE, QUIT) that cud b passed 2 the pop3 server 2 delete mails directly from the server w/o d'loading them. i tried the above cmds with my email service provider, the LIST cmd shows
only
the mail no. & size. i also checked some of the RFCs for pop3, but none of them gave me any
cmds
that i cud use.
STAT => gives [no of mails and mailbox size] LIST => gives [total mails and size of each mail] DELE mail# => [deletes the mail from server after quit] TOP mail# 0 => gives [mail headers of mail#] TOP mail# linecount gives [linecount lines of mail# mail]
i wud like 2 learn about more such cmds & some sites/ books where i cud
get
some info about them.
There are 1000s of such pop3/smtp client exists on sf.net,hotscripts.com. Just need to googlise "pop3/smtp client language name.
i actually want 2 write my own pop3/smtp based email client as my software engg project. any help regarding the pop3 & smtp cmds wud b greatly appreciated.
yahh, above sites will do your project , enjoy carbon-copying
Rich