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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read and write to tcp socket Post 302660839 by cfajohnson on Saturday 23rd of June 2012 12:19:07 PM
Old 06-23-2012
Code:
#!/bin/bash

usage="${0##*/} SERVER USER PASSWORD [PORT]"

case $1 in
    -*|"") printf "USAGE: %s\n" "$usage"; exit ;;
esac

host=${1:-mail.example.com}
user=${2:-poppy}
passwd=${3:-pop3test}
port=${4:-110}

CR=$'\r'                            ## carriage return; for removal of
exec 3<>/dev/tcp/$host/$port        ## connect to POP3 server, port 110
read ok line <&3                    ## get response from server
[ "${ok%$CR}" != "+OK" ] && exit 5  ## check that it succeeded
echo user "$user" >&3               ## send user name
read ok line <&3                    ## get response
[ "${ok%$CR}" != "+OK" ] && exit 5  ## check that it succeeded
echo pass "$passwd" >&3             ## send password
read ok line <&3                    ## get response
[ "${ok%$CR}" != "+OK" ] && exit 5  ## check that it succeeded
echo stat >&3                       ## request number of messages
read ok num x <&3                   ## get response
echo Messages: $num                 ## display number of messages
echo quit >&3                       ## close connection

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