Question: Is it possible to delete email sitting on the POP3 server based on its age? For example, have it only delete mail from server older than 5 days. Answer: The POP3 protocol itself does not have the direct ability to delete email based on date/time (or any other selection criteria). The POP3 protocol only provides the ability to delete […]
Question: I would like to use your product to process mail on an MS Exchange server. Which product should I use; Chilkat MAIL or Chilkat IMAP? I saw in your examples that I can use both to connect to an Exchange server MAIL with Pop3 and IMAP for a direct login on the server but which one is the best […]
Question: Our problem that in the POP3 incoming account there are 400 mails but the developer’s UIDL query can see only the first 251 mails and downloads only 251 mails. Answer: There may be several common reasons. The first thing to do is to verify number of emails in the mailbox by calling the mailman.GetMailboxCount method. It sends a STAT […]
The most common problem with reading email from GMail using Chilkat’s POP3 and IMAP API’s is the following: The user can see certain emails when interactively logged onto GMail with a web browser, but cannot see those emails using Chilkat’s POP3 or IMAP component. The problem is caused by a setting in your GMail account. The default setting causes an […]
The following mailman methods use the X-UIDL email header as the means to identify the email to be downloaded or deleted from a POP3 server: GetFullEmail DeleteEmail DeleteBundle If no X-UIDL header is found within the email, then it is not possible to determine the sequence number of the email to be downloaded or deleted. (POP3 commands to fetch or […]
Question: We are currently using Chilkat to retrieve e-mail for a number of our applications. A client of ours has updated their exchange mail server and they have disabled the pop3 service because of authentication issues (the user/password is sent unencrypted and would be a threat). Are there any other possibilities within the scope of chilkat to retrieve mail from […]
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The POP3 protocol is not very feature rich. To download an email “header” the POP3 client must issue a “TOP” command. The following text is from RFC 1939 and describes the response to the TOP command: … After the initial +OK, the POP3 server sends the headers of the message, the blank line separating the headers from the body, and […]
If you see this error when trying to login to a POP3 server, it most likely means that the server is only allowing a single connection (i.e. session) at a time for each mailbox, and than another user already has mailbox open. It could also mean that the POP3 administrator temporarily locked the mailbox to prevent access.
Question: I am reading my POP3 mailbox by calling mailman.CopyMail. It returns a bundle object, but the bundle.MessageCount = 0. I know there are emails in the mailbox. What happened? Answer: The most common mistake is that you’re looking at your email using a program such as Outlook and your emails have already been downloaded and removed from the POP3 […]