Subj : Re: SMTP and POP3
To   : Simon Woodland
From : Chris Hoppman
Date : Thu Nov 07 2002 08:20 am

|15Quoting Message From |10Simon Woodland |15to |10Chris Hoppman
|15On |1020 Oct 02  19:07:13. 
SW> Pop3 stands for Post offfice protocol and Smtp Simple mail Transport Protoc
SW> Basiclly in a standard home user system you receive mail via pop3 and send 
SW> SMTP. Sometimes you can recive mail via SMTP if
SW> your ISP alllow's it but the  drawback is
SW> you get everything dumped in your mail box using smtp if you want it or not
SW> where as POP3 has the caplebility to recevie messages from the server, keep

 hrm, yep. Let me try it this way.  SMTP recieves mail on port 25 and also
sends mail on port 25.  When it recieves the mail does it store it in a file 
format upon the server?  Or, tempary store it until it is --> To sort of 
answer my own question.  It passes it off to the pop3 server.  Now, does that
store it in a file on the server.  Or it doesn't store it at all and just 
passes it off to the pop3 server and that does it.
 Sorry, I have this source code for a smtp & pop3 server and want to figure
out the code.  I just want to use the smtp to dump the mail it recieves to a
file for convertion to NetMail format but I am not sure if I am able to do
that.  The code is in oop(slash delphi-1)(slash tpascal 7)(slahs visualpascal)
in which I am not that good with *yet* and tring to figure out what is going
on with the code is having my head spin.  I haven't been able to look at it
for a couple of months.  Well, since I postted the question.  (alot of stuff
sided track'd me).  Anyhow, since then I have found a few sites that example 
just what you told me, but not the internal workings and was hoping someone 
could fill me in.

breathin' in

Chris.

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