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Verify Connectivity to the POP3 Server

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Demonstrates the Chilkat MailMan.VerifyPopConnection method, which tests whether a TCP/IP connection can be established with the configured POP3 server. It verifies connectivity only — it does not authenticate. This example configures the POP3 host and checks whether it can be reached.

Background: This is the POP3 counterpart to VerifySmtpConnection. It answers the first diagnostic question — can the client reach the POP3 server on the configured host and port and complete the TLS handshake? A failure here indicates a network, firewall, DNS, port, or certificate problem rather than a credentials issue, which VerifyPopLogin checks next.

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LOCAL oMailman
LOCAL nConnected

//  Demonstrates the MailMan.VerifyPopConnection method, which tests whether a TCP/IP
//  connection can be established with the configured POP3 server.  It verifies connectivity
//  only (it does not authenticate).

oMailman := CreateObject("Chilkat.MailMan")

//  Configure the POP3 server connection.
oMailman:MailHost := "pop.example.com"
oMailman:MailPort := 995
oMailman:PopSsl := 1

//  Test connectivity to the POP3 server.
nConnected := oMailman:VerifyPopConnection()

IF (nConnected == 1)
    ? "Successfully connected to the POP3 server."
ELSE
    ? "Could not connect to the POP3 server."
ENDIF

oMailman:destroy()