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Article #615Re: TIdPOP3->Connect() doesn't return
From: Miguel Gimenez
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:07
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:07
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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) escribi๏ฟฝ: > "Miguel Gimenez" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message > news:4755e726$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > >> - If I set Port to a working non POP port (80, for example) > > The POP3 protocol defines a greeting command that the server is required to > send to the client upon initial connection. TIdPOP3::Connect() waits for > that greeting to arrive. Port 80, however, is an HTTP port, not a POP3 > port. The HTTP protocol has no greeting. So Connect() establishes a > connection to a server but then ends up waiting for data that never arrives. > >> Is there any way to avoid this? > > Set the ReadTimeout property. It is set to infinite by default. I thought the timeout specified in the Connect() method was enough. Now it works properly, thanks again. -- Best regards Miguel Gimenez
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