any email examples out there - Search couldn't help me !!

[vanjast]

I'd like to write a simple email module that sends/reads an email, without the need to go through any email programs or registered email dlls.
I think there was an email example posted sometime ago - just cannot find it...

Here's my thoughts..
- Know the structure of the email sent over the net, the ports, and packet formats.
- Be able to parse/filter emails on one's postbox and download the relevant email.

Thanks for any help
:8)

[Gunner]

Not at computer but you can search for rfc's smtp rfc, mime rfc email is easy

[vanjast]

Will do... thanks  :U

[clive]

Probably POP on the receive side
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1081

Both SMTP (25) and POP (110) are relatively simple back-n-forth protocols using sockets, personally haven't coded them in assembler, but have done so in C.

Gets more complicated if you want it secure. I haven't looked at IMAP

[mineiro]

genesys project (http://pbrennick.freehosting.net/)(GeneSysSDK2008.zip)
joe v.1.1.0 by japeth (http://www.japheth.de/Download/Joe/Joe118.zip)

[oex]

Japheth's Outlook Express :bdg

[Tedd]

Sending is simple, as long as you have a friendly server - use ESMTP http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321 via port 25, and then the commands of interest will be "EHLO", "MAIL FROM", "RCPT TO", "DATA", and "QUIT"

Receiving can be a bit more complex, but POP3 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1939 is fairly simple; though IMAP4 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501 is preferred, but requires more work.

They're purely line-based text protocols, where lines end with a CR-LF pair. You connect on the required port, start sending commands, and receive the replies. Anything that isn't plain text (attachments) tends to be MIME encoded.

[vanjast]

Thank you gentlemen..  :U

[NPNW]

http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html