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+id = "POP3 Capabilites"
+
+description = "retrieves POP3 server capabilites"
+
+author = "Philip Pickering <pgpickering@gmail.com>"
+license = "Same as Nmap--See http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html"
+
+categories = {"default"}
+
+require 'pop3'
+require 'shortport'
+
+portrule = shortport.port_or_service({110}, "pop3")
+
+action = function(host, port)
+  local capa = pop3.capabilities(host, port)
+  if capa then 
+     local capstr = ""
+     local cap, args
+     for cap, args in pairs(capa) do
+	capstr = capstr .. " " .. cap
+	if type(args) == "string" then capstr = capstr .. "(" .. args .. ")" end
+	if type(args) == "table" then
+	   local arg
+	   capstr = capstr .. "("
+	   for i, arg in ipairs(args) do
+	      capstr = capstr .. arg .. " "
+	   end
+	   capstr = string.sub(capstr, 1, #capstr - 1) .. ")"
+	end
+     end
+     return capstr
+  else
+     return "server doesn't support CAPA"
+  end
+end