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Using Telnet to delete POP3 e-mail
You have an Internet e-mail address via a POP3-account,
you most probably use Outlook Express as e-mail client,
but now somebody has filled up your e-mail mailbox with HUGE
messages
( MegaBytes of garbage ).
For Outlook Express to delete these messages in the mailbox on
the POP3
server, you first have to download them
( if you use an e-mail client like
"Pegasus Mail", you
could make "File, Selective Mail Download" allowing you
to delete messages while they are still on the POP3-eMail server).
a possible solution: use TELNET (one of
the utilities installed by all Windows versions
together with the TCP/IP protocol),
start it up by typing "telnet" in the RUN-menu:
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TELNET:
To see what you type
yourself, select in the
menu: "Terminal" the
"Preferences" and
put a checkmark on
"Local Echo" |
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Then, to connect to
your POP3 email server,
select from the menu:
"Connect", then
"Remote System",
define as Host-name the
name of your POP3
-eMail server (as given
to you by your ISP)
and enter as port "110" |
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after a short delay, your
POP3-email server
should reply with
"+OK" and a welcome
message.
Enter now:
"user <userID>",
where
<user-ID> is YOUR
email User Identification.
Enter then:
"pass <password>",
using your e-mail
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using the command "list",
you can see for each e-mail the size of the message.
Typing the command "retr x",
where "x" is the message number, displays the
e-mail message in the telnet window, the command "top
x y" will display for
message "x" only the message header and the first Y
lines of the message.
With the command "dele x",
you can delete a message from the e-mail server.
Type "quit" to terminate the
connection.
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