Hello,

Here is an example of a small programme that retrive your mail from a
POP3 server to add then in a standard unix mailbox file. I think it is
an intersting exemple, and it even may be usefull in some situation !

Although it works for me, it may have bugs ... use it at your own risk !

To compile the program, just type

ocamlc -o popget -custom unix.cma popget.ml -cclib -lunix

To use it type

popget server_name [-d] [-p port_number] [-l userid] [-P password] [-m
mailbox] [-b] [-s sec]

where
  server_name : is the name of the pop3 server
  -d : means delete message from serve (default is none)
  -p port: specify the pop3 port (default 110)
  -l userid: specify the pop3 user name (default $USER)
  -P passwd: specify the pop3 passwd (default "")
  -m mailbox: specify the unix mailbox (default /var/spool/mail/$USER)
  -b : run in background and check mail periodicaly (default false)
  -s time : when -b is given: the number of seconds between chack
(default 300)

-- 
Christophe Raffalli
Laboratoire de Mathématique / LAMA
Université de Savoie
UFR SFA, Campus Scientifique
73376, Le Bourget du Lac CEDEX, FRANCE.

URL: http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/www.raffalli
email: Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr