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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    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 := chilkat.NewMailMan()

    //  Configure the POP3 server connection.
    mailman.SetMailHost("pop.example.com")
    mailman.SetMailPort(995)
    mailman.SetPopSsl(true)
    mailman.SetPopUsername("user@example.com")
    mailman.SetPopPassword("myPassword")

    success = mailman.Pop3BeginSession()
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(mailman.LastErrorText())
        mailman.DisposeMailMan()
        return
    }

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

    fmt.Println("STAT response: ", *response)

    success = mailman.Pop3EndSession()
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(mailman.LastErrorText())
        mailman.DisposeMailMan()
        return
    }


    mailman.DisposeMailMan()