Web Based POP3 Service Operation Manual

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Overview

Usage

1. Initial Screen
2. To retrieve all mail at a time
3. To retrieve the list of your mail
4. To retrieve or delete specified mail
5. To use "Dump Mode"
6. To acquire the mail list of the latest

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Bugs

Web Based POP3 Service - CGI based POP3 Client

Web Based POP3 Service is a POP3 client program which starts as CGI.
This script make it possible to refer to mail outside of firewall from the inside under the environment prevented by firewall.

The function of "Content display of all mail together", "Mail list display", "Specified mail (The plural can be specified) content display", and "Specified mail (The plural can be specified) deletion" is supported.

"Dump mode" by which the content of the mail box is displayed as it is is added. It is also possible to take the data which outputs the dump mode into your mail software and to develop an attached file.

Because this service takesout mail does by this service and transmits only the result as HTML target via browser, whether firewall is set up in my site does not become a problem If you can access the internet with browser.

It is possible to display of Japanese mail even by the mail service to which Japanese misconverts. A Japanese display of the mail text does not take the shape instead of few the function compared with "Service to which mail is taken out with the server". Mail headers written in Japanese  is correctly displayed.

Because the password mail address etc. are input in every case, individual information is never left for the personal-computer.Moreover, because all files are not made even for the server side, the maintenance of security is more certain than usual mail software.

The APOP authorization aviable.

1. Initial Screen

This is a image of "Initial Screen".


Web Based POP3 Service Version x.x (yyyy.mm.dd). Copyright(C)1997-2000 IIZUKA,Shinji(siizuka@nurs.or.jp). All right reserved. This page is served "AS IS".Use this service at your own risk DNS name of your POP3 server Port number of your POP3 server (110 when blank) Your account Password for your account Console mode Header only Retrieve/Delete Seleced Mail Dump Mode Use APOP authorization


DNS name of your mail server
Input domain name of your mail host, i.e. mailserver.yoursite.com.
Port number of your POP3 server
Input the port number of your POP3 server. This program asume 110 if this area is blank, so you need not to input this area in normal case.
Your account
Input your account(user) name for your mail server.
Password for your account
Input the password for your account
Console mode
Select "Console mode" to display all mail you have in the mailbox. However, this option is a remaining influences from Version1 and it is thought to hardly use it perhaps.
Header only
Select "Header only" to retrieve all subjects of your mails.
Dump mode
Select "Dump mode"  when you want to display all mail in the mail box as it is. The explanation of Dump mode is described later.
Use APOP authorization
Check on this checkbox when use APOP authorization. If your POP3 server does not process APOP, this script change the method to normal POP3 authriaztion.

2.To retrieve all mail at a time
When you bury all the input columns and push "Execute" button, this service starts the retrieval of mail.
The transmission result appears one by one on the screen
of transmitting browser.
The content of input is cleared by pushing "ClearInput" button.

When you fill all inputs and select "Console mode",Push "Execute" Button and this service starts to retrieve your mail. The retrieval result appears one by one on the screen of browser which orders retrieval.
The content of input is cleared by pushing "Reset" button.
When the communication ends , it is retrieval completion. Your mails are displayed in the browser.

3.To retrieve the list of your mail
• When you bury all the input columns and push "Execute" button, this service starts the retrieval of mail.

The transmission result appears one by one on the screen of transmitting browser.
• øhen the communication ends , it is retrieval completion. The list of your mails is displayed in the browser.

4.To retrieve or delete specified mail
• This is an image when you execute "3.To retrieve the list of your mail".

Web Based POP3 Service - result Version x.x (yyyy.mm.dd).  Copyright(C)1997-2000 IIZUKA,Shinji(siizuka@nurs.or.jp). All right reserved. This page is served "AS IS".Use this service at your own risk  ------ execution log ------- resolving mail.yourdomain.or.jp. please wait... connecting mail.yourdomain.or.jp using port no. 110... +OK DUMMYPOP (version 2.0) at mail.yourdomain.or.jp starting. <29574.249274068@mail.yourdomain.or.jp>  USER your-account +OK Password required for your-account.  PASS ***** +OK your-account has 3 message (1603 octets).  LIST +OK 3 messages (9016 octets)  1 801  2 2324  3 5891  .  Read Delete Date Subject From Size 5 Apr 1998 01:44:08  Hello! "IIZUKA" <siizuka@nurs.or.jp> 1234 8 Apr 1998 9:27:32  Test "Iizuka" <siizuka@nurs.or.jp> 5678 12 Apr 1998 18:52:14  Re: confirm "Iizuka,shinji" <siizuka@nurs.or.jp> 901 DNS name of your mail server Your account Password for your account Console mode Header only Retrieve/Delete Seleced Mail Dump Mode Use APOP authorization QUIT +OK Pop server at mail.yourdomain.or.jp signing off.  Connection closed. Goodbye. ------ end of execution log -----


Check the checkboxes at the left of the mail you want to read or delete and input "Password for your account" again.
Read part is checkboxes for selection of the mail you want to read, and Deletepart is for selection of the mail you want to delete.
If your browser suppors Javascripts,four buttons apper below the mail list. Usage of these buttons is:

ON all(read)	Select all Read checkboxes.
OFF all(read)	Clear all Read checkboxes.
ON all(delete)	Select all Delete checkboxes.
OFF all(delete)	Clear all Delete checkboxes.

• When you bury all the input columns and push "Execute" button, this service starts the retrieval or deleteion of mail you indicate.

The transmission result appears one by one on the screen of transmitting browser.
When the communication ends , it is retrieval completion.
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5. To use "Dump Mode"
• When you push "Execute" button after you select "Dump mode" and fill your password again, This service starts to retrieve mail by the dump mode.

The retrieval result is displayed on the screen of browser which orders retrieval as a text document .
This data becomes the same as the content of the mail box and is delimited at period (.) between each mail. The data of this form can preserve the data in the file by using the function of browser because it is possible and take import into the mail software with most mail software.
6. To acquire the mail list of the latest
• You can acquire the mail list of the latest to reload result screen of "3.To retrieve the list of your mail".
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IIZUKA Shinji(siizuka@nurs.or.jp)
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• There may be no problem in security as the program because this service does not make all the middle files.However, please note that there is a problem (Man who observes the network in malice can see in mail) on the same security as general mail software.
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• It does not correspond to IMAP4 because it is "POP3" client like the name.
• This service tries to connect each processing demand with the mail server.
• An attached file is not developed and this service is displayed partially of the text.Please go from your mail software in the development of an attached file by using DumpMode.
• This service tries to connect each processing demand with the mail server.Therefore, there is a possibility to delete and to refer to wrong mail when the stranger deletes my mail from the display of the mail list to the deletion and the order of the mail display.
• A Japanese display sometimes takes the shape occasionally.
• All Japanese mails are required to be sent by the JIS code according to RFC. Therefore, when the mail sent by the character code set without either the ASCII code or the JIS code mixes, either of mail is illegally displayed (The best measures against such cases are to draw attention to the person who sends a perhaps strange character code).

Moreover, because this service depends on browser for the character display logic, you might see strange display for the charcterset.
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