POP3 Mail Retrieval

[craig_phillips2]

When i connect to my mail server using winsock, it cannot get to sckConnected state of 7. It gets to 6 which is connecting and just stays there. Is there something missing needed to allow the socket to establish a full connection?

I get a data arrival but of course i cant use GetData at sckConnecting state because it causes a run time error. Help!!

[BuggyProgrammer]

do you have the right port for your server?

[craig_phillips2]

Yeah, the port is fine. I did try it with another server and it worked, but the older version of the same program i wrote works fine and i havent changed any of the tcp winsock code. Any ideas or known bugs?

[craig_phillips2]

The only server it works with is my NTL server yet i can telnet into any of the other servers. You can telnet into my mail server if you telnet to ct.homeip.net on port 9150

Try it. But the winsock never gets a response or actually it does but its not in the correct connection state to call GetData. If i call GetData it causes a runtime error because its in state 6 not 7. To be able to do anything with the connection it MUST be state 7.

[craig_phillips2]

As you have probably guessed, i figured out why it didnt work. You need to have a doevents statement in after the connect so that VB can access the winsock.dll and establish a connection correctly, otherwise it doesnt establish one correctly and you get the problem i had. I put a do events in the send command and data arrival bit.

cheers

[Zaei]

Why is your mail server running on port 9150? Most servers default to 110.

Z.

[craig_phillips2]

just a security reason. Dont want any willy nilly logging into my server. So i use descrete ports.

dont suppose you remember how to send keys to an application? Im trying to fill a password box with a password and press enter afterwards. I tried sendkeys, doesnt seem to work.

[Zaei]

Try AppActivate() first. Other then that... ::shrug::

Z.