connecting to mailservers

i want to code some kind of mailclient, but i have no idea how to connect to mailservers (POP3, IMAP, SMTP). As far as i know, it's pretty easy by using sockets, another thing i don't know anything about. Does anyone know a good tutorial about connecting to mailservers via c++, or can anyone explain me how to do it?

(Hint: i understand most scripting languages and have rudimentary knowledge in java)
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