As many of you may already know, I’m a networking protocols guru. I’ve, in addition to publishing some, say, HTTP proxies (for example, the
only one that really makes it possible to share your Web access across Pocket PC devices on pre-WM5 AKU3 devices) and tons of related utilities, tracked down a LOT of mailing / HTTP-related problems and bugs in several operating systems / with several mailer / Web clients. (Look for some of my problem reports for example in my
IMAP Bible if interested to get a picture what kind of protocol-level stuff / debugging I’m doing on the Pocket PC.)
Upon scrutinizing a recent problem report in the
microsoft.public.pocketpc newsgroup, I’ve developed further my set of POP3 debugging servers to make it easy to offer Pocket PC / desktop mailer clients a very easy way to feed email headers + bodies available as a separate text file to.
The new, Outlook-friendly emulator’s source is available
here, listens to incoming desktop Outlook requests at port
5671 and requires the full input message (headers + body), trailed by a single “.” (to denote the end of the message) in the last separate row, in an
in.txt file in the same directory.
Hope you find it useful, should you ever need a very quick way to test e-mail compliance involving the desktop Microsoft Outlook.
Mail client compliance testers, ATTN: a new POP3 server emulator for Outlook released!
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