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End a POP3 Session Without Committing Deletions

Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.Pop3EndSessionNoQuit method, which closes the POP3 connection without sending the QUIT command. Pending deletion marks are not committed — messages marked with DELE during the session remain in the mailbox. This example marks a message for deletion and then abandons the session so the deletion does not take effect.

Background: POP3's deferred-deletion model effectively gives you a transaction: marks made with DELE are only applied when the session ends with QUIT. Ending without QUIT is therefore a rollback — useful if an error occurs mid-processing and you'd rather leave the mailbox untouched than risk deleting messages you failed to handle. Use Pop3EndSession when you do want the deletions committed.

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#include <CkMailMan.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the MailMan.Pop3EndSessionNoQuit method, which closes the POP3 connection
    //  WITHOUT sending the QUIT command.  Pending deletion marks are not committed -- messages
    //  marked with DELE during the session remain in the mailbox.

    CkMailMan mailman;

    //  Configure the POP3 server connection.
    mailman.put_MailHost("pop.example.com");
    mailman.put_MailPort(995);
    mailman.put_PopSsl(true);
    mailman.put_PopUsername("user@example.com");
    mailman.put_PopPassword("myPassword");

    success = mailman.Pop3BeginSession();
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << mailman.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  Mark a message for deletion...
    success = mailman.DeleteByMsgnum(1);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << mailman.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  ...but end the session without QUIT, so the deletion is NOT committed and the message
    //  remains in the mailbox.
    success = mailman.Pop3EndSessionNoQuit();
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << mailman.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "Session closed without committing the pending deletion." << "\r\n";
    }