You can use two ways to manage windows 2003 pop3 service and it's email accounts. Microsoft has two basic ways to do it:
- using pop3 service snapin to mmc (p3server.msc) for interactive work
- using winpop.exe command line. The command line can be used to manage accounts from script, but you will have a lot of work with monitoring output, etc.
Better way is to use P3Admin.dll and it's programming interface. The DLL is not finished work (as you can see inside the DLL), but is is a better way for the task than command line.
You can manage the accounts locally or remotelly. You will need P3Admin.dll, P3Store.dll, Pop3Auth.dll, Pop3evt.dll, pop3perf.dll and pop3snap.dll DLLs (registerred using regsvr32)
Next function lets you add an user email account to windows 2003 pop3 service using script or other programming environment. The script bellow is written in VBA 6 (You can use it in Visual basic 6, Excel, Access, ...), you can simply modify the script for VB Script or VB.Net.
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Building an application to access POP3 mail can be very difficult without the right help. I have been building POP3 apps for 6 years now and have worked closely with professional developers the world over -- helping them to do the same. In this issue of E-Mail Secrets, I am going to show you how to build a reliable POP3 application the easy way. Developers who are new to POP3 as well as seasoned POP3 developers will find this article indispensable. We will cover topics from basic to advanced and offer tips, tricks and secrets that developers of all levels can benefit from. What you will learn from this brief article will save you weeks or more of learning, research and development. I am confident that you can read this article and have a basic, reliable POP3 application up and running within an hour.
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If you have IIS SMTP service installed on your machine, you can send an email using the service and CDONTS.NewMail object. This object lets you send text or HTML emails (with attachment/images) by a simple way, but its performance is not so good. You can send only several few emails per second. Next sub shows basic CDONTS.NewMail idea.
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In this tutorial I intend to teach you how to take a user entered email address and validate it on the server side. Mind you we're not checking to see if it actually exists, as if we could, but rather if it is in the correct syntax of a valid email address.
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