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Posted by Damian Burrin on 12/30/05 01:10
>See rfc2821 for more details on the simple mail transfer protocol
>(particularly section 2.3.3)
Thanks i'd seen that. And you've confirmed what i initally thought.
Therefore Terrapin's Multinet must do something very unusual. It's
definatly not using imap or pop 3 to access the mailboxes. I've got a
configurable php webmail client i hacked together a while ago and that
accesses my imap based and pop3 based mailboxes quite happily but it won't
touch this one. using either imap or pop i just get the cannot open stream
errors.
when i access my email from the multinet box using outlook i use the
mailservers ip for both the pop and smtp server and just give it the mailbox
id ass the account and obvoisly the password to.
Really not sure how this thing is giving access to the mail-boxes then.
Thanks
Damian
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"Carl" <_Nospam_@_DO_NOT_.USE> wrote in message
news:tPZsf.38783$dO2.37957@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
> Damian Burrin wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm running a purrly smtp mail server and am trying to create a webmail
>> function to read the email stored in the mailboxes.
>>
>> Looking at some of the demos on line i've seen plenty for reading from
>> pop3 and imap servers but can't find anything for smtp.
>>
>> Sending email via the mail() function using smtp is fairly straight
>> forward. Anyone got any pointers on where to look for actually connecting
>> to an smtp mailserver to read mail?
>>
>> For reference the mail server is Terrapin Multinet 1.3
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Damian
>>
>
>
> Damian,
>
> The SMTP ,Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a mail transport and delivery
> protocol. It does not define any commands for reading mail. Most SMTP
> servers, when they receive a message where they are the final destination
> will then place the message in a message store which should then be
> accessed by a mail user agent (MUA) like a pop or imap server.
>
> In order to read mail, you would normally access one of these servers
> which accesses the mail store created by your smtp server.
>
> See rfc2821 for more details on the simple mail transfer protocol
> (particularly section 2.3.3).
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html
>
> Cheers,
> Carl.
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