POP3RecvMessage

Command group Flag affected Reversible Execute on client Platform(s)
External commands YES NO NO All

Syntax

POP3RecvMessage (socket,messagenumber,message[,stsproc]) Returns status

Description

Note: The flag is set according to whether Omnis was able to make a call to this external command.

This Web command is multi-threaded, allowing another thread to execute in the multi-threaded server while it runs. Note that the same socket cannot safely be used concurrently by more than one thread.

POP3RecvMessage reads a message stored on a POP3 server. The message must not be marked for deletion.

Socket is an Omnis Long Integer field containing a socket opened to a POP3 server using POP3Connect.

MessageNumber is an Omnis Long Integer field which identifies the message to be read. Message numbers are assigned by the POP3 server, after you call POP3Connect, starting with 1 for the first message, 2 for the second, and so on.

Message is an Omnis Binary or Character field which receives the message. Note that you can pass the result to MailSplit, in order to parse the message. For correct results with many of the encodings supported by MailSplit you must receive into a Binary field.

StsProc is an optional parameter containing the name of an Omnis method that POP3RecvMessage calls with status messages. POP3RecvMessage calls the method with no parameters, and the status information in the variable #S1. The status information logs protocol messages exchanged on the connection to the server.

Status is an Omnis Long Integer field which receives the result of executing the command. Possible error codes are listed in the Web Command Error Codes Appendix.

Example

# Read the first message stored on the POP3 server lServer for user
# lUserName
Calculate lServer as 'my.pop3.server'
Calculate lUserName as 'myusername'
Calculate lPassword as 'mypassword'
POP3Connect (lServer,lUserName,lPasswordReturns iSocket
POP3RecvMessage (iSocket,1,lMessageReturns lStatus