Perl

Send a Raw POP3 Command

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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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  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::CkMailMan->new();

#  Configure the POP3 server connection.
$mailman->put_MailHost("pop.example.com");
$mailman->put_MailPort(995);
$mailman->put_PopSsl(1);
$mailman->put_PopUsername('user@example.com');
$mailman->put_PopPassword("myPassword");

$success = $mailman->Pop3BeginSession();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Send the raw POP3 STAT command, which returns the message count and maildrop size.
$response = $mailman->pop3SendRawCommand("STAT","us-ascii");
if ($mailman->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "STAT response: " . $response . "\r\n";

$success = $mailman->Pop3EndSession();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mailman->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}