Pop3Client Module Introduction

The Pop3Client module provides the Pop3Client class for retrieving emails from a POP3 server, with or without TLS/SSL encryption.

To use this module, use "%requires Pop3Client" in your code. See examples/pop3.q for an example program using this module.

All the public symbols in the module are defined in the Pop3Client namespace.

The main classes are:

Pop3Client: provides an interface to a POP3 server for retrieving emails
Pop3Connection: provides a connection object to a POP3 server (based on the ConnectionProvider module)

Example:: #!/usr/bin/env qore
%new-style
%strict-args
%require-types
%enable-all-warnings
%requires Pop3Client
sub log(string msg) {
printf("%y: %s\n", now_ms(), vsprintf(msg, argv));
}
string url = "pop3s://username:[email protected]";
Pop3Client pop3(url, \log(), \log());
# do not send a QUIT so changes will not be committed
pop3.noquit(True);
*hash<auto> h = pop3.getMail();
printf("Mailbox Summary:\n");
map printf("%s: From: %s (size: %d bytes, attachments: %d)\n", $1.key, $1.value.msg.getFrom(), $1.value.size, $1.getvalue.msg.getAttachments().size()), h.pairIterator();
if (!h)
printf("no messages\n");

Pop3Client Module Release Notes

removed the Pop3Connection::getConstructorInfo() and Pop3Connection::getConstructorInfoImpl() methods (issue 3696)
added support for socket events (issue 3425)

added the Pop3Connection::getConstructorInfo() method to allow connections to be created dynamically, potentially in another process from a network call (removed in Pop3Client 1.8) (issue 2628)