Re: POP3

From: Josef Moellers (josef.moellers_at_fujitsu-siemens.com)
Date: 07/19/04


Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:44:40 +0200

billy nelson wrote:
> I'd like to develop a command line program in C that simply retrieves
> email from a POP3 server. Can anyone point me in the right direction to
> get started with this, as I can't seem to find the information I need to
> figure it out (I can't even find any relevant header files in
> /usr/include)? Thanks!

Why C? Can't Perl do the job? There's a decent module for POP3 iirc.

-- 
Josef Möllers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
	If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize
						-- T.  Pratchett


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