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Understanding the Insides of the POP3 Mail Protocol: Part 2

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This article describes the mail sending process for beginners of the mail protocol.
The purpose of this article is to explore the insides of the POP3 protocol and show you how to implement it with C#.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using HigLabo.Net.Mail;
using HigLabo.Net.Imap;

namespace HigLabo.Net.Internal
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represent context of request and response process and provide data about context.
    /// </summary>
    public class ImapDataReceiveContext : DataReceiveContext
    {
        private Byte[] _TagBytes = null;
        private Boolean _IsLastline = false;
        private Action<String> _EndGetResponseCallback = null;
        internal ImapDataReceiveContext(String tag, Encoding encoding) :
            base(encoding)
        {
            _TagBytes = this.Encoding.GetBytes(tag);
        }
        internal ImapDataReceiveContext(String tag, Encoding encoding, Action<String> callbackFunction) :
            base(encoding)
        {
            _TagBytes = this.Encoding.GetBytes(tag);
            _EndGetResponseCallback = callbackFunction;
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Read buffer data to Data property and initialize buffer.
        /// If response has next data,return true.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="size"></param>
        /// <returns>If response has next data,return true</returns>
        public override Boolean ReadBuffer(Int32 size)
        {
            Byte[] bb = this.Buffer;
            Byte[] lastBytes = null;

            for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
            {
                this.Stream.WriteByte(bb[i]);
                bb[i] = 0;

                if (i < _TagBytes.Length - 1) { continue; }
                if (i == _TagBytes.Length - 1)
                {
                    //tag1....で始まってないかチェック
                    this.CheckIsLastline(true);
                }
                else if (i == _TagBytes.Length)
                {
                    //?tag1という場合はないのでスキップ
                    continue;
                }
                else
                {
                    //\r\ntag1かどうかチェック
                    this.CheckIsLastline(i == _TagBytes.Length - 1);
                }
            }

            if (_IsLastline == true)
            {
                if (size < bb.Length)
                {
                    return false;
                }
                if (this.Stream.Length > 1)
                {
                    lastBytes = this.GetLastByte(2);
                    //\r\n
                    if (lastBytes[0] == AsciiCharCode.CarriageReturn.GetNumber() &&
                        lastBytes[1] == AsciiCharCode.LineFeed.GetNumber())
                    { return false; }
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if (this.Stream.Length > 2)
                {
                    lastBytes = this.GetLastByte(3);
                    //\r\n*
                    if (lastBytes[0] == AsciiCharCode.CarriageReturn.GetNumber() &&
                        lastBytes[1] == AsciiCharCode.LineFeed.GetNumber() &&
                        lastBytes[1] == AsciiCharCode.Asterisk.GetNumber())
                    {
                        _IsLastline = true;
                    }
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
        private void CheckIsLastline(Boolean isFirstCheck)
        {
            Byte[] lastBytes = null;

            if (isFirstCheck == true)
            {
                //tag1
                lastBytes = this.GetLastByte(_TagBytes.Length);
            }
            else
            {
                //\r\ntag1
                lastBytes = this.GetLastByte(_TagBytes.Length + 2);
                //改行コードの次の場合のみチェック
                if (lastBytes[0] == AsciiCharCode.CarriageReturn.GetNumber() &&
                    lastBytes[1] == AsciiCharCode.LineFeed.GetNumber())
                {
                    lastBytes = this.GetLastByte(_TagBytes.Length);
                }
                else { return; }
            }
            for (int tagIndex = 0; tagIndex < _TagBytes.Length; tagIndex++)
            {
                if (_TagBytes[tagIndex] != lastBytes[tagIndex])
                {
                    return;
                }
            }
            this._IsLastline = true;
        }
    }
}

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