async POP3 client

Has anyone done a fully asynchronous version of a POP3 client library?

It'd be great to see the one in tcllib support this, similar to how the
http package supports both sync and async calls.

Thanks
Mark

Mark Roseman wrote:
> Has anyone done a fully asynchronous version of a POP3 client library?
>
> It'd be great to see the one in tcllib support this, similar to how the
> http package supports both sync and async calls.

None that i know of. Even drh's version of a pop3 fetcher is blocking
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?...alMailUserAgent

but from a cursory look at the fetch code it seems to be easy enough
to convert to callback based.

Michael

schlenk <schlenk@uni-oldenburg.de> writes:

> Mark Roseman wrote: 

My ultra-old Pool_Net (See
http://www.oche.de/~akupries/soft/p...g_Pool_Net.html (*)) contains
a series of classes for a fully event-driven pop3 fetcher.

It should be easy to convert the old homegrown OO system they are
written in to snit, they are reasonably similar if my memory is right.

I am still using this code as my personal pop3 fetcher since forever
(well, AD 2000 or so).

> None that i know of. Even drh's version of a pop3 fetcher is blocking
> http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?...alMailUserAgent
>
> but from a cursory look at the fetch code it seems to be easy enough
> to convert to callback based.
>
> Michael

(*) The home link has the download info.

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