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POP3 username issues

 [1/3] from: webmaster::securesystem::info at: 21-Jan-2004 1:42


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! Sincerely, Chris White

 [2/3] from: cybarite:sympatico:ca at: 20-Jan-2004 2:07


Maybe yours is different but the userid that I logon to my email is not the email address. Check your other mail programs to see what they have input. For Opera mail which I use, the user account is entered on the Account Properties page. There is a General tab which has the mail address... which is what you are referring to. On the Servers tab there is a Username and password field. These are the ones that you want.

 [3/3] from: ingo:2b1 at: 20-Jan-2004 16:38


Hi Chris, Chris White wrote:
> All, > I know that the form for pop3 access is [
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> 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<

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