POP3 SPA Authentication (Secure Password Authentication)

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Delphi mail programming example showing how to use POP3 SPA.

// Delphi sample code showing how to read POP3 mail with
// POP3 SPA (Secure Password Authentication)
procedure TForm1.Button6Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  bundle: IChilkatEmailBundle2;

begin
  // A ChilkatMailMan2 ActiveX component was dropped onto the Delphi
  // form, and this became the Form's member variable "ChilkatMailMan21".

  // Unlock the component -- only needs to be called once in a program.
  ChilkatMailMan21.UnlockComponent('Anything for 30-day trial');

  // Set the POP3 mail server hostname, login, and password.
  ChilkatMailMan21.MailHost := 'mail.chilkatsoft.com';
  ChilkatMailMan21.PopUsername := '***';
  ChilkatMailMan21.PopPassword := '***';

  // Using SPA Authentication with POP3 is as easy as simply
  // setting the Pop3SPA property = 1.   That's all...
  ChilkatMailMan21.Pop3SPA := 1;

  // Read the entire mailbox, leaving the mail on the POP3 server.
  bundle := ChilkatMailMan21.CopyMail();
  if (bundle = nil) then
      ChilkatMailMan21.SaveLastError('errorLog.xml');

end;