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11.6.1 POP3 Objects

All POP3 commands are represented by methods of the same name, in lower-case; most return the response text sent by the server.

An POP3 instance has the following methods:

user (username): Send user commad, response should indicate that a password is required.

pass_ (password): Send password, response includes message count and mailbox size. Note: the mailbox on the server is locked until quit() is called.

apop (user, secret): Use the more secure APOP authentication to log into the POP3 server.

rpop (user): Use RPOP authentication (similar to UNIX r-commands) to log into POP3 server.

stat (): Get mailbox status. The result is a tuple of 2 integers: (message count, mailbox size).

list ([which]): Request message list, result is in the form (response, ['mesg_num octets', ...]). If which is set, it is the message to list.

retr (which): Retrieve whole message number which. Result is in form (response, ['line', ...], octets).