The net/pop3 library doesn't seem to support ssl connections to a pop3 server. Here's a simple function that uses the openssl library to connect to a server using ssl and attempt to login:
(require openssl) (define (pop3auth username password [server "pop.gmail.com"]) (let-values ([(inp outp) (ssl-connect server 995 'tls)]) (read-line inp) ; eats the "+OK ...." reply (write-string (string-append "USER " username "\r\n") outp) (read-line inp) (write-string (string-append "PASS " password "\r\n") outp) (let ([res (regexp-match #rx"^\\+OK" (read-line inp))]) (write-string "QUIT\r\n" outp) (read-line inp) res))) (pop3auth "<username>" "<password>") produces ("+OK") if successful login, or #f if failure. You might be able to use ssl-connect as above to get input/output ports and then manually make a 'communicator' structure that can be used with the remaining functions of the net/pop3 library. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Sayed Khader <askha...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > Hello > > I'm writing with regards to the net/pop3 library. I'm attempting to use it > to pull emails from my gmail account. The connection I am trying to > establish is very basic. As per the GMail connection specification > (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287) I make the > following function call > > (define mp (connect-to-server "pop.gmail.com" 995)) > > And after thirty or so seconds, I receive the following error > > regexp-match: expects type <string, byte string, or input port> as 2nd > argument, given: #<eof>; other arguments were: #rx"^\\+OK(.*)" > > Any ideas? > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Nadeem Abdul Hamid Associate Professor, Computer Science Berry College PO Box 5014 2277 Martha Berry Hwy NW Mount Berry, GA 30149-5014 (706) 368-5632 http://cs.berry.edu/~nhamid/ _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users