Send a Raw POP3 Command

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Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.Pop3SendRawCommand method, which sends a raw command to the POP3 server and returns the server's response. The second argument specifies the charset to use if the command contains non-US-ASCII characters. This example sends the POP3 STAT command within an open session.

Background: POP3 is a simple line-based text protocol — the client sends short commands like STAT, LIST, UIDL, or RETR and the server replies with +OK or -ERR. This method is an escape hatch for issuing a command Chilkat doesn't wrap directly, or a server-specific extension. Note that the session must already be open, since a raw command assumes an authenticated connection.

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#include <C_CkMailMan.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkMailMan mailman;
    const char *response;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the MailMan.Pop3SendRawCommand method, which sends a raw command to the POP3
    //  server and returns the server's response.  The second argument is the charset used if the
    //  command contains non-US-ASCII characters.

    mailman = CkMailMan_Create();

    //  Configure the POP3 server connection.
    CkMailMan_putMailHost(mailman,"pop.example.com");
    CkMailMan_putMailPort(mailman,995);
    CkMailMan_putPopSsl(mailman,TRUE);
    CkMailMan_putPopUsername(mailman,"user@example.com");
    CkMailMan_putPopPassword(mailman,"myPassword");

    success = CkMailMan_Pop3BeginSession(mailman);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkMailMan_lastErrorText(mailman));
        CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);
        return;
    }

    //  Send the raw POP3 STAT command, which returns the message count and maildrop size.
    response = CkMailMan_pop3SendRawCommand(mailman,"STAT","us-ascii");
    if (CkMailMan_getLastMethodSuccess(mailman) == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkMailMan_lastErrorText(mailman));
        CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);
        return;
    }

    printf("STAT response: %s\n",response);

    success = CkMailMan_Pop3EndSession(mailman);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkMailMan_lastErrorText(mailman));
        CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);
        return;
    }



    CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);

    }