Utilizing POP and SMTP

[ronnyjljr]

I was wondering if anyone could point in the correct direction on where to find some tutorials that deal with creating and using pop and smtp mail functions. I am interested in writing my own e-mail program to see how it works and I am unfamiliar if Winsock includes any of it.

Thanks,
Ron

After a while of studying Engineering at PSU you just want to sit down and eat a bowl of cereal. Thats all you really want.

 

[Salem]

Depends what level you want to approach this at.

If you're looking for some high level API with functions like SendMail(), then no doubt they exist somewhere within the massive API which Microsoft provide. It'll get the job done, but you won't learn a great deal.

On the other hand, if you want to go for something low level to learn quite a lot about networking, then you should start reading Beej

Once you've got past that, you can start talking in individual protocols like SMTP. Pretty much every internet standard is determined by the RFCs.
Search for "SMTP" (it's RFC821) and basically do what it says.

Everything you need to do this kind of network programming is in winsock

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[obislavu]

Check in this forum the following:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=672939&SPID=207&page=18

-obislavu-