Pop3 connection with D

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

BCS wrote:
> Roger wrote:
>> Hello i'm student of College of Engineering Informatics in Fribourg 
>> Switzerland.
>>
>> For a semester project i want to create a E-mail client with D.
>>
>> Anyone can help me to know how to create a pop3 and smtp connection 
>> with D?
>> I have searched a lot but i found only a dead reference:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/22349.html
>>
>> Tanks a lot, bye, Roger
> 
> As with a lot of D you might (but not nessisaraly) have to roll your 
> own. SMTP isn't that bad (I've used it by hand in telnet). I expect pop 
> would be about the same. IIRC there /is/ a lib out there for SMTP.
> 
> If you feel "nerdy" enough you can just read the RFC's <G>
> 
> pop3
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1939
> 
> SMTP
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2821

Possibly implementing protocols could be an area in which DSLs might 
help, e.g. in the guise of automata and of course regex. I once designed 
a little DSL for implementing FTP and it was of great help.

Andrei