[Tfug] Telnet/mail

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Brian your an animal!

I tried it and it worked.  Cool!

Thanks for your help.

Anyone have a suggestion for a mail client that would:

1) run under blackbox
2) allow for multiple accounts
3) configurable for automating what account mail goes in what directory
4) must be simple stupid so I can use it.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

Keith

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Murphy <murphy@u.arizona.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 6:01:54 PM
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Telnet/mail

> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 05:45:10PM -0700, klsmith wrote:
> > I thought I could simply look at my mail using telnet (I know it is not
> > secure)  Just wanted to try.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on a simple command line app that will allow for
reading my
> > mail while it is still on the ISP server?
> 
> You'll want to talk to the POP or IMAP ports to read your mail.  SMTP is
> mostly for sending.
> 
> Both mutt and pine (yuck) can read IMAP folders.  Probably pop too, but I
> haven't used POP in a long time.
> 
> If you're really curious about POP...
> 
> telnet server 110
> user username
> pass password
> list
> retr 1
> quit
> 
> 
> Optionally, the top command will only bring back the number of lines in a 
message
> that you specify...
> 
> top message# num_of_lines
> 
> This is good for seeing the header.  POP is meant to be a simple
protocol.  
You can't
> seek to the middle of a message.  And, not all servers implement top.
> 
> See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html for all of the commands.
> 
> Brian
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