Perl

Test HotMail POP3 (pop3.live.com or pop-mail.outlook.com)

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Demonstrates connecting and authenticating to pop3.live.com. Make sure to enable POP3 access, as shown here:

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $mailman = Chilkat2::MailMan->new;

# Connection settings for pop3.live.com (or pop-mail.outlook.com, both should work)
$mailman->MailHost('pop-mail.outlook.com');
$mailman->MailHost('pop3.live.com');

$mailman->PopUsername('my_account@live.com');
$mailman->PopPassword('my_live.com_password');
$mailman->MailPort(995);
$mailman->PopSsl(1);

# Make the TLS connection to the POP3 server.
my $success = $mailman->Pop3Connect();
if (!$success) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Authenticate..
$success = $mailman->Pop3Authenticate();
if (!$success) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Find out how many emails are on the server..
my $numEmails = $mailman->CheckMail();
if ($numEmails < 0) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Examine the POP3 session log:
print $mailman->Pop3SessionLog, "\n";

# End the POP3 session and close the connection to the POP3 server.
$success = $mailman->Pop3EndSession();
if (!$success) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "-- Finished.\n";

# The output of this program:

#     **** Connected to pop3.live.com:995
#     < +OK DUB006-POP206 POP3 server ready
#     > USER chilkat@live.com
#     < +OK password required
#     > PASS ****
#     < +OK User successfully authenticated. [AuthResult=0 Proxy=CY1PR17MB0630.namprd17.prod.outlook.com:1995:SSL]
#     > STAT
#     < +OK 46 3980488
#
#     -- Finished.
#