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Snail (snail@objmedia.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: 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).

The easiest way would be to implement a POP3 retrieve,

: 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

You'll need pop3.demon.co.uk port 110,

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

For a basic POP3 reader (without using any Demon extensions) :

user <hostname>
pass <password>
list
retr 1
retr 2
...
retr n
quit

: 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.

post.demon.co.uk is AFAIK only for *out-going* mail, pop3 is for well,
pop3 and for smtp the punts will connect you directly, so you'll have to
accept connections to port 25.

: 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.

Standard NNTP news transfer works fine, I'm not sure if Demon have added
any extensions to the protocol. You did'nt specify which operating system
you use, but if it's Unix, then there is plenty of source code for news
(try slurp, suck, tin) and mail (sendmail, smail, etc) which will help
you.