Email fun: talking to pop server

[Joel Hammer]

With POP3, you can dele any message number you wish without downloading
anything else. What happens is I run fetchmail and the thang chokes on a
particular item (socket error or some such.) Logging on with telnet 110 lets
me dele this item. I would just like to know some magic for retr'ing a mail item
to a file.
Joel

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:16:41PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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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