POP3 (mostly useless) Applet Demo

This demo will let you enter the host name for your POP server and your userid and password and will return the number of mail files waiting to be downloaded. However it has 2 fatal flaws:

• It only works if your mail server is on my WWW Server (unlikely!)
• It would require you to enter a your password in an untrusted applet which you should not do!

You should be getting a dialog box where you can enter
- Your Mail Server address
- Your Userid
- Your mail Password

The demo applet would then use the entered userid and password to establish a connection with the Mail server and access the information about how many messages are waiting for this userid. As distributed, with the default host, it will only display a message that the connect failed because my Web server does not run a POP server.

If you enter another host address, you will/should get a security violation message because an applet can not contact any host other that the host that "served" the applet.

I suspect that this POP3 class will be more useful in Java "applications" rather than applets unless the mail server and the web server are the same or you have placed the POP3 class into your Java CLASSPATH.

The associated README.HTML file has additional discussion about the security requirement for contacting the server.