Reading a POP3 server with only TcpClient and StreamWriter/StreamReader
- by WebDevHobo
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 587.
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.
public Program() {
string temp = "";
using(TcpClient tc = new TcpClient(new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"),8000))) {
tc.Connect("pop3.live.com",587);
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);
}
So, I'm sending from port 8000 on my machine to port 587, the hotmail pop3 port.
And I'm getting nothing, and I'm out of ideas.
