Re: News Group reader

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On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 10:01:28 PST, Jeromie Reeves <chat_town at HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>  Hiya all
>
> I am working on a News Group reader/Email reader. I have no idea what
>the handshaking protocols are. I have The Euphoria Winsock Project, Pre
>Alpha 0.13. I am sure this will work but im not 100% sure. I have used
>sock's in QB4.0 but never in Euphoria. Any help you can give is
>welcomed.

Best do some studying before you muck up your mail and news servers.
Here are some hints to get you started:
Mail (pop3) is text based, you can talk to it if you know what to say.

connect to mail.foobar.net port 110
#welcome to the foobar server....
>user jeromie <== this is what you type
>pass yrpassword <== and this
#You have 10 messages ==> this comes from the mail server
>retr 1 <== means send me message #1
# text of message 1 will show up here
>dele 1 <== bye bye message #1
>quit <== be ABSOLUTELY sure you send the quit, or you won't be able to get
your mail for a while (minutes, days, years, I don't know)

Irv

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