Somewhat surprisingly, PHP’s imap library can be also used for working with POP3 mailboxes. Most of the advanced IMAP features won’t work, of course (e.g. folders or fetching message parts), but the basic POP3 functionality is implemented. The main difference is the option string that you’re passing to imap_open – to quote that page: // … Read more
I cannot come with a complete list, but I can come with what I know of: Fetching an email will hide it from all later POP3 sessions unless you reset your gmail pop3 settings (sets them again). To be more precise: I found out that this happens with the RETR command only. Not the TOP … Read more
I use the free and open source SharpMimeTools in my application, BugTracker.NET. It has been very dependable: http://anmar.eu.org/projects/sharpmimetools/ See the files POP3Client.cs, POP3Main.cs, and insert_bug.aspx
You don’t need to dirtily hack imaplib. You could try using the SocksiPy package, which supports socks4, socks5 and http proxy (connect): Something like this, obviously you’d want to handle the setproxy options better, via extra arguments to a custom __init__ method, etc. from imaplib import IMAP4, IMAP4_SSL, IMAP4_PORT, IMAP4_SSL_PORT from socks import sockssocket, PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS4, … Read more
This usually occurs because either of the following are true: The certificate is self-signed and not added as a trusted certificate. The certificate is expired. The certificate is signed by a root certificate that’s not installed on your machine. The certificate is signed using the fully qualified domain address of the server. Meaning: cannot use … Read more
MessageFramework on CocoaDev lists various possibilities, “Sending emails from Cocoa” also lists several frameworks, including Pantomime, MailCore and EdMessage (the site for this seems to be down, but there is a mirror on github, which has also been modified to compile for 10.4, as well as 10.5 – so should work on the iPhone) Example … Read more
I’ve successfully used OpenPop.NET to access emails via POP3.