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Hi folks,

I don't normally stray into the world of writing email and news
software (*), but recently a client of mine has asked me to do just
this. Suffice to say that we (myself and the client) want the product to
be capable of retrieving our email from our demon accounts. I've already
got the send part (for email) working and now wish to do the receive.

My initial idea was that since SMTP was used to send the email I could
use SMTP with the 'TURN<CRLF>' command to make the demon end of the
connect become the sender and my end the receiver. Sadly
post.demon.co.uk doesn't implement TURN (TURN is optional in the spec).
That said the email configure dialog in Turnpike sort of indicates that
SMTP, POP and POP3 can be used...

So I'm wondering how Turnpike (which I'm using to write this) loads its
email. I'm not using POP3 at present (Indeed the POP3 code I have can't
open port 110 on post.demon.co.uk (I don't know that it is indeed
post.demon.co.uk if using POP3, a quick look at www.demon.net didn't
show any pointers).

I've tried WWW searches on POP and POP3 specs with no luck so far.

So could someone please tell me what protocol I should be trying to use, 
and if I should be talking to something other than post.demon.co.uk.
I'd be most grateful for the pointers.

Likewise, I'm sure I'll run into the same protocol requirements/troubles
for news, so pointers on what demon use will be gratefully received.

The project? Well we're doing some software for use by blind people.

(*) I usually spend my time working on GUI/multimedia/graphics stuff, so 
this is a bit different. 

Cheers
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Stephen Kellett
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