I'm trying to read mails from my live.com account, via the POP3 protocol.
I've found the the server is pop3.live.com and the port if 995.
I'm not planning on using a pre-made library, I'm using NetworkStream and StreamReader/StreamWriter for the job. I need to figure this out. So, any of the answers given here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44383/reading-email-using-pop3-in-c are not usefull.
It's part of a larger program, but I made a small test to see if it works. Eitherway, i'm not getting anything. Here's the code I'm using, which I think should be correct.
EDIT: this code is old, please refer to the second block problem solved.
public Program() {
string temp = "";
using(TcpClient tc = new TcpClient(new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"),8000))) {
tc.Connect("pop3.live.com",995);
using(NetworkStream nws = tc.GetStream()) {
using(StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(nws)) {
using(StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(nws)) {
sw.WriteLine("USER " + user);
sw.Flush();
sw.WriteLine("PASS " + pass);
sw.Flush();
sw.WriteLine("LIST");
sw.Flush();
while(temp != ".") {
temp += sr.ReadLine();
}
}
}
}
}
Console.WriteLine(temp);
}
Visual Studio debugger constantly falls over tc.Connect("pop3.live.com",995); Which throws an "A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network 65.55.172.253:995" error.
So, I'm sending from port 8000 on my machine to port 995, the hotmail pop3 port.
And I'm getting nothing, and I'm out of ideas.
Second block: Problem was apparently that I didn't write the quit command.
The Code:
public Program() {
string str = string.Empty;
string strTemp = string.Empty;
using(TcpClient tc = new TcpClient()) {
tc.Connect("pop3.live.com",995);
using(SslStream sl = new SslStream(tc.GetStream())) {
sl.AuthenticateAsClient("pop3.live.com");
using(StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(sl)) {
using(StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(sl)) {
sw.WriteLine("USER " + user);
sw.Flush();
sw.WriteLine("PASS " + pass);
sw.Flush();
sw.WriteLine("LIST");
sw.Flush();
sw.WriteLine("QUIT ");
sw.Flush();
while((strTemp = sr.ReadLine()) != null) {
if(strTemp == "." || strTemp.IndexOf("-ERR") != -1) {
break;
}
str += strTemp;
}
}
}
}
}
Console.WriteLine(str);
}
