Purpose

 

This example demonstrates how to retrieve an email message header from a POP3 server and save the message's contents on a hard drive. Headers contain information about an email message which can be useful for message parsing and processing.

 

Additional Prerequisites

 

The user account you specify should have at least one email message on the POP server in order for this example to work. An email can be sent to the account you specify with a different example, click here.

 

Prepared Example Files

 

 

The archive contains one file:

 

• RetrieveHeader.bat - The batch file that will instruct NetMailBot to retrieve the email message.

 

Batch File Contents

 

This is the content of the batch file:

 

NetMailBot.exe -receive -popheader 1 -popserver localhost -popuser email@domain.com -poppassword secret

 

pause

 

Steps

 

1. Unzip the RetrieveHeader.zip file. This will produce a directory called "RetrieveHeader". Open this directory.
2. Open Notepad and edit the batch file "RetrieveHeader.bat". Change the values of the following parameters:

• -popuser to your own user account
• -poppassword to your user account's password
• -popserver to your user account's POP3 mail server name

 

NOTE: The parameter -receive is required whenever using the POP3 parameters; this parameter puts NetMailBot into what might be called "POP3 mode" as opposed to "SMTP mode" which is for sending mails.

 

3. Invoke the batch file by double-clicking the icon or straight from the command line.
4. An email message header from your POP3 mail server should be downloaded and saved to your hard drive with the filename "header[message number].txt" in a folder named "pop" under your System Temporary Directory.