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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bool 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.

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;
}

//  Send the raw POP3 STAT command, which returns the message count and maildrop size.
string response = mailman.Pop3SendRawCommand("STAT","us-ascii");
if (mailman.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("STAT response: " + response);

success = mailman.Pop3EndSession();
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mailman.LastErrorText);
    return;
}