Re: Help Reading from a POP3 Mail Server

On 07 Dec 2018, at 20:04, John <john.iliffe@iliffe.ca> wrote: > Tim, FYI, the problem I encountered during testing using a few hundred  > emails randomly grabbed off the server, was that someone had sent an > e-mail where they delimited a copy/paste operation with a string of dots. > Since these were all alone on the line they matched the ./n/r sequence > when I tested for end of e-mail. > > The problem with any approach that relies on testing the received data > is likely to be ambiguities like this. The server, based on looking at > the received stream, just sends until it gets to EOF, sends the .  > delimiter and stops. fgets() and fread() don't seem to spot this until > the socket times out. The server (not sure whether your local one or the remote sender's one) is supposed to do dot-stuffing to get round this, as I noted. You then have to do dot-unstuffing to restore the original. See the code I posted. -- Cheers -- Tim