Hallo Samuel! >This sounds like a very interesting project. Please tell us more. Oh, i never finished it because real POP3 mailers are so much better. In the course of the privatisation of the german telephone network, one company offered phone calls where the first minute of the call would be free of charge. So i had the idea to get my email one-by-one by dialing a free ISP, getting mail, and hanging up 55 seconds after dialing, repeating the process as long as there are mails on the server. As i found no email program that could do what i want, i had to write something myself that would do the phone calls and do the mail exchange with the POP3 server. >What is the 4DOS batch language, where can you get it, and with what >DOS versions is it compatible? 4DOS is a well-known replacement for the COMMAND.COM shell which adds a few commands to the BAT file language. Get it at every major FTP site, like Simtel. It is compatible with more or less every not extremely old DOS version. >Also, could you please post a simple sample program indicating how >this is done? You can use fictitious dialup numbers, usernames, >passwords and DNS numbers. You see, i got as far as getting the first email and storing it on disk. Then the phone company stopped its one-minute-free program, and so i reverted to a classic POP3 mailer (UKA_PPP) to get my mail and i still pay 12 Pfennig (approx. 6 US-Cent) per day for my mail. The project was more than a year ago so i don't remember much of it. The general idea of the program was to dial the phone number using a chat script (see CHAT documentation included with DOSPPP), let DOSPPP make a PPP connection including PAP login, run TCPPORT which would connect to my POP3 server and TCPPORT provided a connection by emulated BIOS serial interface services. So i could use "ECHO USER xcxsdf >COM1" to tell the mail server who i am and an input function from 4DOS to read it's responses. The necessary communications with the server are quite straightforward and can be found in a) the relevant RFC files b) in the "I sit in Siberia and have only Telnet" web page (it explains how do use various internet services when you only have Telnet available) -- Gunnar Th�le To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
