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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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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oMailman
LOCAL cResponse

nSuccess := 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.

oMailman := CreateObject("Chilkat.MailMan")

//  Configure the POP3 server connection.
oMailman:MailHost := "pop.example.com"
oMailman:MailPort := 995
oMailman:PopSsl := 1
oMailman:PopUsername := "user@example.com"
oMailman:PopPassword := "myPassword"

nSuccess := oMailman:Pop3BeginSession()
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oMailman:LastErrorText
    oMailman:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Send the raw POP3 STAT command, which returns the message count and maildrop size.
cResponse := oMailman:Pop3SendRawCommand("STAT", "us-ascii")
IF (oMailman:LastMethodSuccess == 0)
    ? oMailman:LastErrorText
    oMailman:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "STAT response: " + cResponse

nSuccess := oMailman:Pop3EndSession()
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oMailman:LastErrorText
    oMailman:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

oMailman:destroy()