Re: Get list of new messages in POP3

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From: Don Siders
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:16

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> I'm using Indy 9 in BCB6. I can connect to a POP3 mailbox and find the 
> number of messages in my mailbox. I can cycle through the messages with 
> Retrieve() and read the subject of each message but I never get any 
> value for Flags (in the TIdMessage object, I'm checking for the value 
> mfRecent to see if a message has recently arrived but Flags is always = 
> 0) even though I've sent a recent message to the mailbox. No matter how 
> many times I use this, I always get the same number for iMsg (the result 
> of CheckMessages()) and a value of 0 for NewMsgCount (because idm->Flags 
> is always = 0).

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> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thank you.

The POP3 protocol makes no provisions for message flags.  That aspect requires IMAP.  So the flags ( while available in TIdMessage) are not used with TIdPOP3.

hth...

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