Vista - Check Pop3 or IMAP4

Is there any built in way to check a POP3 or IMAP4 server for e-mail, and
download a message form said server?

I have written some scripts with WinBatch, but would like to move it to VB I
just can't find anyway to Poll the server, and download the message. My
current code checks the POP3 Server for a message, then downloads the Oldest
message, and then Parses it (the parsing is the reason for the whole script)
after Parsing, I then log back to the server, and delete the e-mail, while
this is VERY doable in WB, it's slow and hard to automate the execution of
the WB Script automatically. If I could do the same in VB I could use the
Built-in Scheduler in windows to run the script (I can't do that with WB
because it needs an interpreter which I can't afford, windows has a Built in
VB interpreter

"Alan Fisher" <alan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:91F008A9-8416-4C4B-BD2C-DA4BF109FFA8@xxxxxxIt sounds like you at least know the POP protocol. If I was tasked with
this, I would use the .Exec method to telnet to the POP server via port
110, then use StdIn and StdOut to process the POP commands and
resulting output. This may not be doable(not sure if that is really a word),
but that is the approach I would take to see if it is possible.

It is possible in VB, I once wrote an app in VB to do this.

If you are OK with using third party tools, you might have a look
here : http://www.activexperts.com/ActivEmail/


TDM

Il giorno Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:50:04 -0700, "TDM" <rpuffd@xxxxxx> ha scritto:I read somewhere that telnet does not support stdin and stdout. But never tried.
A post in this newsgroup (22 october 2003) used sendkeys to automate telnet.

I used NetCat (NC.exe, a 50 kb file) to send commands to the port 110.
With netcat I build a command to invoke the command and then redirect input and output.
I tried to read the stdin but encountered some errors (if I remember well, read past the
end of file). Maybe I had to wait for a while until the output was created.
I didn't use this script anymore as my provider implemented a spam killer application.

This works only if the server doesn't require the encoding of the password, as the string
provided by the server for the encoding cannot be read dynamically while the connection is
open. It could be done using stdin and stdout.


Title="PopMail - Cenati"
set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
' Crea l'oggetto FileSystemObject
Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Const ForWriting = 2

'User="Ci@xxxxxx"
'Password="x"
'Server="pop.y.com"

fso.CreateTextFile "command.txt",true
Set txtStream=fso.OpenTextFile("command.txt",ForWriting)
TxtStream.WriteLine "user " & user
TxtStream.WriteLine "pass " & password
TxtStream.WriteLine "stat"
TxtStream.WriteLine "quit"
txtStream.Close

wshShell.run "%comspec% /C nc.exe " & server & " 110 <command.txt >output.txt",7,true

Set oFile = fso.OpenTextFile("output.txt")
testo = oFile.ReadAll
oFile.Close
msgbox testo

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Giovanni Cenati (Bergamo, Italy)
Write to "Reventlov" at katamail com
http://digilander.libero.it/Cenati (Esempi e programmi in VbScript)
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I had looked at the activEmail, problem is the cost for me, as I'm not
normally one to write alot of code, esp for mail aplications so the cost
(actually any Cost) is prohibitive! The telnet way is basicly what I'm
doing with WinBatch, man is it slow and clunky, thanks for the effort, I'll
keep digging around...

I was really hopping for some kind of windows built in calls I could
utilize, I do that alot in my login scripts using WMI calls and such!


"TDM" <rpuffd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e10qElTGJHA.4200@xxxxxx

"Alan Fisher" <alan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23fnd2NSIJHA.1556@xxxxxxSorry about that, that's what I get for not viewing the entire page. I
did not see the cost associate with this, and if I did, I would not
have posted.


TDM