[REBOL] Re: POP3 username issues
From: ingo:2b1 at: 20-Jan-2004 16:38
Hi Chris,
Chris White wrote:
> All,
>
> I know that the form for pop3 access is [
> pop3://username:[password--host--com] ], but my problem is that the username
> is in the form [user--domain--com] (ie. [webmaster--securesystem--info] ). The
> problem with that is I now have 2 @'s in my string, and I believe that
> rebol is incorrectly parsing them. Any quick solutions or maybe I just
> read something wrong. Thank you in advance for your help!
in Rebol, there mostly is a quick and dirty way to do things, which works
most of the time, and a more elaborate way for the remaining cases. In
your case you should open the port directly, like this:
>> p: open [
scheme: 'pop
user: "your username"
pass: "your password"
host: "your mail-host"
]
>> length? p
== 22
>> first p
== {Return-path: <>
Envelope-to: [ingo--localhost]
Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=ingo)
^-by smrgol.2b1.de with esmtp (Ex...
>> close p
I hope that helps,
Ingo<
