Quick Email Account Check

[storme]

G'day all

I'm writting a small program to check email accounts for my customers. The general idea is I enter their details once, validate it, then periodicaly check that the password hasn't changed. I get a lot of customers that change their password (as they should) but forget to change the password in the ADSL modem to logon so next time the power goes off I get a call of "No internet access".

I know I can setup an telnet session and manually enter the commands and check results. But before I embark on that little trip I thought I'd ask if anyone had a better suggestion or better yet a UDF.

To start POP is all I need to check but I'm worried about proxyes as I've done very little work in this area and don't use a proxy.

Thanks for any help

John Morrison

Edited June 4, 2009 by storme

[monoceres]

How would the manual telnet commands look like? Telnet is just sending the raw data you supply so it is in most cases direct translatable to the native autoit TCP* functions.

[storme]

Thanks monoceres

I went looking for the commands to post here and I did a slightly different search to the ones I'd alreyad done and came up with http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...=pop+pass+email which is exaclty what I was looking for.

thanks for the nudge

John Morrison

[storme]

I did a little work on "monoceres" code and came up with a little UDF _PopCheck to check username, password, server and optionally port for validity.

If it maybe useful to you then check out http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96224

Good luck

John Morrison