POP3 and IMAP Problem

[CapReed]

Hi all,

I have several days researching the Net library to create an application that can read all the emails that I have stored in my Gmail account. Unfortunately, I can not read every post, only just entering. How could perform a sequential read of all emails stored? :sign0085:

I am using the POP3 Erel example, using POP_DownloadCompleted

On the other hand, is it possible to work with IMAP BA4?

Sorry for my English ...

Thanks for your time.

 

[Erel]

Pop3 returns the messages that the server provides. In the case of Gmail it seems that the server only provides the last messages.
Currently there is no IMAP library available.

 

[CapReed]

Hi Erel!

I've been all day with this issue and I think I'll have to use sockets to get the whole list of emails from the inbox. Like I'm saying some nonsense ... I am very new to this stuff!

Do you have any example where I can send the POP3 server through a socket, for example, USER, PASS, LIST, etc, etc, etc?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Erel]

You will work very hard and eventually get the same results as the Net library. It is the server that returns the top messages.

 

[CapReed]

That's right, I understand. But to be working directly with the server could establish a protocol that would allow me to also negotiate with the IMAP server.

For example, assuming that we would be working with POP3, the steps would be the usual:

A. - Establish communication with the socket.
2. - Wait for me on the server OK.
3. - USER Send you the user in question
4. - Send you PASS with the key
5. Make a LIST to see all the messages and can be recovered one by one to read the header.

I understand that this is the same that makes the library NET, but as the IMAP is not implemented in NET, I intend to learn as with POP3 to IMAP then do it.

I hope the google translator to translate this agile this long post ;-)

 

[Erel]

Implementing IMAP will be useful. I was writing about POP3 which is already implemented.

However it is a very difficult task to implement it yourself especially if you are not experienced. I know that someone has starting working on an IMAP library that wraps an open source project. This approach will be much simpler.

 

[moster67]

IMAP would be great :sign0060:

Some years ago I was playing around with Windows Mobile (don't recall if I was using Basic4PPC or Visual Basic Net) and accessing GMail (and other email-accounts) using IMAP. I remember I had to use SSL over socket. I got most of it working - the tricky part was MIME (for attachments) which I got working partially. At the end I lost interest but it is doable. However, it will require some studying of the various protocols.