pop3 mail

[shilpa_g2]

HELP!! is there any 'start of message' marker in an pop3 emails, so as to know from where the actual message begins. Like one 'BOF' for the beiging of file marker

[avickers]

The headers and message are separated by a single blank line, thus:

[Header]
[Header]
[Header]
[Header]

[Message]
[Message]
[Message]
.

The single dot terminates the whole thing. If there are multiple blank lines between the headers and the message, then all but the first form part of the message.

HTH,
Cheers,
Ade.

[spider_man]

Hey, read the rfc!
rtfm!

[Anon]

do a search on the net for rfc822.
everything is mentioned there.

as mentioned by Ade, the e-mail message contains headers (from, to, subject, date), and then a single empty line (just \n), and the rest is the message body.

don't know the complexity of your script, but you should find out about MIME too and encoded mails (base64/qp) if you require it.

have a good and productive day. 🙂