POP3 ASP Component - How to Read Email from a POP3 Server

WebMail ASP Example

ASP Script to Read Email from a POP3 Server

This example shows how to read Email from a POP3 server.

First, get the hostname of the POP3 mail server, and login information using this HTML form:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Chilkat WebMail Example: Read Mail Form</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<form method="post" action="read_mail.asp">
  <table width="75%" border="0">
    <tr> 
      <td width="42%" nowrap> 
        <div align="right">POP3 Hostname</div>
      </td>
      <td width="58%"> 
        <input type="text" name="popHostname" size="40">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td width="42%" nowrap> 
        <div align="right">Login</div>
      </td>
      <td width="58%"> 
        <input type="text" name="loginName" size="40">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td width="42%" nowrap> 
        <div align="right">Password</div>
      </td>
      <td width="58%"> 
        <input type="text" name="password" size="40">
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </p>
</form>
<!-- End of ASP Form for Reading Mail -->
</BODY>
</HTML>

This is the HTML form target (read_mail.asp):

<%@ LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" %>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Chilkat ASP Mail Example: Read a POP3 Mailbox</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

Reading email....<br><br>

<%
	' Create a mailman
	set mailman = Server.CreateObject("ChilkatWebMail.WebMailMan")

    ' Unlock the component - use your trial or purchased unlock code.
    mailman.UnlockComponent "unlock_code"

	' Tell the mailman where to get mail, and the login/password
	mailman.MailHost = Request.Form("popHostname")
	mailman.PopUsername = Request.Form("loginName")
	mailman.PopPassword = Request.Form("password")

	' Copy the mail without removing it from the server.
	' When reading email, the mailman always returns a MailBundle
	Set mailBundle = mailman.CopyMail
	  ' To Remove the mail from the server, use TransferMail:
	  ' Set mailBundle = mailman.TransferMail

	If Not (mailBundle Is Nothing) Then

	  ' Loop over the email messages in the bundle
	  For i = 0 To mailBundle.messageCount - 1

		Set email = mailBundle.GetEmail(i)

		Response.write "<br>" & i & "<br>"
		Response.write "<b>From:</b> " & Server.HTMLEncode(email.From) & "<br>"
		Response.write "<b>Subject:</b> " & Server.HTMLEncode(email.Subject) & "<br>"
		
		if email.NumTo = 0 then
			Response.write "<b>To:</b> " & Server.HTMLEncode(email.GetTo(0)) & "<br>"
		else
			Response.write "<b>To:</b><blockquote>"
			For j = 0 to email.NumTo
				Response.write Server.HTMLEncode(email.GetTo(j)) & "<br>"
			Next
			Response.write "</blockquote><br>"
		end if

		'Response.write "<b>Raw Header:</b><br><pre>"
		'Response.write Server.HTMLEncode(email.RawHeader)
		'Response.write "</pre><br>"
		Set email = Nothing
	  Next

	End If
%>
    <br>(View page source to see the log)
    <XML ID="XMLID">
<%
    Response.write mailman.GetInstanceLog()
%>
    </XML>
<%

	Set mailBundle = Nothing

	' Standard ASP cleanup of objects
	Set mailman = Nothing

%>

<BR>DONE.<BR>

</BODY>
</HTML>

* This is an Active Server Pages (ASP) example script showing how to read mail from a POP3 server.

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