VB6 ExampleYahoo POP3 server address is "pop.mail.yahoo.com" or "plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com". It requires SSL connection on 995 port, and you should use your Yahoo email address as the user name for user authentication. For example: your email is "myid@yahoo.com", and then the user name should be "myid@yahoo.com".
The following example codes demonstrate how to retrieve email from Yahoo POP3 server.
' The following example codes demonstrate retrieving email from Yahoo POP3 server
' To get full sample projects, please download and install EAGetMail on your machine.
' To run it correctly, please change email server, user, password, folder, file name value to yours
Option Explicit
Const MailServerPop3 = 0
Const MailServerImap4 = 1
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim curpath As String
Dim mailbox As String
Dim oTools As New EAGetMailObjLib.Tools
' Create a folder named "inbox" under current directory
' to save the email retrieved.
curpath = App.Path
mailbox = curpath & "\inbox"
oTools.CreateFolder mailbox
Dim oServer As New EAGetMailObjLib.MailServer
' Yahoo POP3 server address is "pop.mail.yahoo.com"
oServer.Server = "pop.mail.yahoo.com"
oServer.User = "yahooid@yahoo.com"
oServer.Password = "testpassword"
oServer.Protocol = MailServerPop3
' Enable SSL Connection
oServer.SSLConnection = True
' Set 995 SSL Port
oServer.Port = 995
On Error GoTo ErrorHandle:
Dim oClient As New EAGetMailObjLib.MailClient
oClient.LicenseCode = "TryIt"
oClient.Connect oServer
MsgBox "Connected"
Dim infos
infos = oClient.GetMailInfos()
MsgBox UBound(infos) + 1 & " emails"
Dim i As Integer
For i = LBound(infos) To UBound(infos)
Dim info As EAGetMailObjLib.MailInfo
Set info = infos(i)
MsgBox "Index: " & info.Index & "; Size: " & info.Size & _
"; UIDL: " & info.UIDL
' Receive email from Yahoo POP3 server
Dim oMail As EAGetMailObjLib.Mail
Set oMail = oClient.GetMail(info)
MsgBox "From: " & oMail.From.Address & _
vbCrLf & "Subject: " & oMail.Subject
Dim fileName As String
' Generate a random file name by current local datetime,
' You can use your method to generate the filename if you do not like it
fileName = mailbox & "\" & oTools.GenFileName(i) & ".eml
' Save email to local disk
oMail.SaveAs fileName, True
' Mark email as deleted from Yahoo server.
oClient.Delete info
Next
' Quit and pure emails marked as deleted from Yahoo POP3 server.
oClient.Quit
Exit Sub
ErrorHandle:
MsgBox Err.Description
End Sub
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