4 Feb
2003
4 Feb
'03
11:26 a.m.
On 4 Feb 2003, Gurpreet Singh wrote:
i am writing a SMTP and POP mail client for a s/w presentation comptt. am coding in Java can someone tell me how am i suppose to authenticate to the SMTP and POP servers. i mean what command is needed to be sent to the servers to authenticate myself as a valid user??
Ok, this is for everyone who ever thought of doing this...
Don't use this list to do your homework.
The SMTP and POP3 protocols are extremely well documented. If you plan on writing a client (for whatever reason), your first job would be to know the protocol by heart. Make sure you can do SMTP and POP3 manually before you even write your first import statement (or #include or use, or whatever it is in your language of choice).
Philip
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