pop3 mail box Send/Recieve log

Question

hello every body i want to write a code for some application in order to connect to a pop3 mailbox and log the send and recieve transactions done on the mailbox even by other users, or even read the built in log file if there is?! and Then send some notifications in some way to An admin Account i dont know how to perform the action to write some (administration-Like) application to do this on the given pop3 mailbox , i have read some articles on MSExchange but ...

Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

All of the things you're talking about are administrative functions of the mail server, not features of the pop3 protocol itself.

As such, there's no way to answer this in the abstract (without knowing what kind of mail server is involved) - there's one answer for MS Exchange 2007, another for Dovecot, etc.

A good place to start is probably the administrator's documentation for your particular mail server.