New Net library - Android FTP, SMTP and POP3

[Erel]

The new Net library supports FTP, SMTP and POP3 protocols. This library replaces the FTP library. Both regular connections and SSL connections are supported.
SMTP - Allows you to directly connect to SMTP mail servers and send mails, including Html messages and attachments (more complicated than it may sound )
POP3 - Allows you to directly connect to POP3 mail servers and download messages. Currently the messages are not parsed. The raw string is returned.

Installation instructions:
- Download the attach file.
- Copy Net.xml and Net.jar to the internal libraries folder: C:\Program Files\Anywhere Software\Basic4android\Libraries

If you have previously downloaded the FTP library then you should delete it. The new library is backwards compatible with the FTP library.
The documentation which includes examples is available here: Basic4android - Net

Mails can be a very good and reliable communication channel for Android devices which are likely to not always be connected.
It allows you to take advantage of the mailing technology which is one of the most popular and veteran Internet technology.

V1.20 - New FTP.SendCommand.

[ZJP]

Yessssssss !!!!!!!
Thx

JP

[moster67]

Wow Erel! Many thanks for this.

I am in the office now so I cannot test it. I noted that SMTP permits attachments and there is also SSL-support. Wonderful!

As to POP3, when you say

Currently the messages are not parsed

are you intending attachments and MIME-handling?

[Kiffi]

Thanks a lot, Erel!



Greetings ... Kiffi

[Brad]

you rock man!

[Erel]

are you intending attachments and MIME-handling?

I actually tried several solutions before releasing this library, however none of them worked properly. The case with POP3 is that the general problem of supporting all the possible encodings and messages is very complicated.
However using POP3 to receive messages with a known format is much simpler.

If there is interest I can write a module that will help with saving attachments and with the headers.

As I wrote in the first post I think that the POP3 is a very important feature as it is a reliable method to send information to devices.

[Erel]

MailParser code module is now available: http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/basic...d-devices.html
It allows parsing the raw messages and extracting the headers and attachments.

[dealsmonkey]

Originally Posted by Erel

MailParser code module is now available: http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/basic...d-devices.html
It allows parsing the raw messages and extracting the headers and attachments.

Monsieur, you are spoiling us

[peacemaker]

Good news !
Erel, is it hard to add NNTP protocol ? :-)

[Inman]

Just the library I was looking for. SMTP library makes it really easy to send emails, that too with attachments.

One request. Is it possible to add IMAP to this library? IMAP enables the user to download certain folders (or labels) instead of downloading the whole thing. Implementing an attachment download feature might be possible as well. Google has a documentation page on IMAP extensions for Gmail, but none of that makes sense to me.