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Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 874

What exactly is received from POP3/iMAP?

I'm working on the front end development of a custom mail system and at this point I've been using simple HTML to display data based upon my own received e-mails, however now I would like to create a table in my database of the information which is received upon connecting from on POP3/iPOP server.

Using Outlook.com you can rigth-click a mail and view source however I am oblivious to as whether this is the information gathered upon connecting.

I'm hoping this is the sort of question I can ask on here, basically I'd like to have an answer showing one example of all information received from the iPOP/POP3 server with information and/or useful resources.

To Clarify

I'm working on the front-end development and would like realistic information that would be gathered to create a dummy database table, thus meaning I can echo the information and create functions and whatnot prior actually establishing a connection to POP3 or iMAP

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (1)

arnt
arnt

Reputation: 9685

POP is a classic internet protocol in that it contains lots of plain text. You can use POP effectively using just telnet server.doma.in 110 to see how a server responsds to a particular command, and Wireshark will dump the commands user by Outlook and the server's responses, both in a format that'll suit your tests well.

Upvotes: 1

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