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Re: [PHP3] getting info from a socket connection From: Cameron Just (ccjust <email protected>)
Date: 07/13/98

Hi Adam,

When you are talking to the POP server you can't just listen which is what
the demo script does.
You have to talk to the POP server.
1. Give it a command.
2. Recieve Reply while also listening for the POP servers end of
transmission signal.
3. Go to 1.

POP's endof transmission is not EOF, some commands only return 1 line,
other return multiple lines with a '.' on a line by itself to signal then
end. The only time you will get an EOF is when you send the POP server the
QUIT signal.
Take a look at the RFC Protocols for POP and from that you will be able to
work out what you need.
I don't have the URL as the site I used to go to is gone.
The best way to learn is to connect to a POP server via telnet and port
110. Take a look at the syntax of the replies and queries.

Good Luck

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Cameron Just (ccjust <email protected>)

Web Development
Prentice Centre.

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