Email fun: talking to pop server

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:00:04PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>I have occasion to talk directly to my email server (POP 3) with telnet
>when an email just hangs up with fetchmail and I have to dele the item
>manually.
>
>So, I would like to know how, when using telnet to talk to my POP server,
>I can direct the email I download to my regular mail file. The output
>by default comes right to the screen.

If your POP3 server also does IMAP, you could access it that way and delete
the message without downloading anything other than the headers.

You could also use ``script'' to get the output of your telnet session into
a file.

Bill
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