Accessing a pop3 mailbox

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Galahad
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Accessing a pop3 mailbox

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What is a good way to access a pop3 mailbox? I know I could use the imap functions, but because they require the c-client library, my isp wants to charge me to enable them. Is there another way to do it?
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haagen
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You could use the php socket functionallity. Pop3 uses tcp port 110. And it uses a quite simple clear text protocol. But you'll probably need to write quite a bit of code. There's a possiblity that you find a good (and free) class to use, but I'm sorry to say that I don't know of any (haven't looked though).
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