Re: POP3 client on the AS/400

I think before doing that, a basic design needs to be established.

Personally, I think the best way to do POP3 is to feed the output to a
SMTP server for local delivery.  I think that's one of the things they
learned the hard way when they wrote fetchmail.   (Fetchmail is the
most popular POP3 program for Unix/Linux)

That way, you could use the POP3 software in conjunction with the normal
OS/400 SMTP server as well as any existing OS/400 mail software.  It also
keeps with the paradigm of keeping the mail transport agent (MTA) seperate
from the mail user agent (MUA) that's been discussed so many times in
e-mail philosophy.

The hard part is parsing the MIME content and displaying it on the screen,
IMHO.   The network code is the easy part.   I also have no idea how
OS/400 stores the mail on the system, or how it should be accessed.

Or were you thinking to use POP3 as a method of accessing it?   Usually,
though, POP3 is used to transport it...


On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, John Ross wrote:

> There has been talk of a green screen POP3 client
> http://archive.midrange.com/oss400/200208/msg00001.html
> I found the start of one  http://home.yebo.co.za/%7E10302602/   under
> AS/400 downloads  it puts some of the header stuff (Took me too long to
> figure out it was using TOP 1 to only get the first line of email) in a
> file and no error checking. I have it on a V4R3 system if anyone wants to
> look/work on it, with some changes I made to it.   I added some files,
> allow the retrieval of the whole message, and try to ignore attachments.
> But I am pretty much done with it for now.
>
> John Ross
> www.opensource400.org
>

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