End a POP3 Session Without Committing Deletions

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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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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.

Chilkat.MailMan mailman = new Chilkat.MailMan();

//  Configure the POP3 server connection.
mailman.MailHost = "pop.example.com";
mailman.MailPort = 995;
mailman.PopSsl = true;
mailman.PopUsername = "user@example.com";
mailman.PopPassword = "myPassword";

success = mailman.Pop3BeginSession();
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Mark a message for deletion...
success = mailman.DeleteByMsgnum(1);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    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) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Session closed without committing the pending deletion.");