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February 15th, 2003, 05:54 PM
#1
Checking e-mails using telnet command...
Hi,
This is a pretty little tutorial about checking your e-mails using the telnet command and POP3 protocol.
Note: I looked for a tutorial about this throughout the forums but i couldn't find one about receiving e-mails, just about sending them. If there is already one made, then please just tell me and i will erase this tutorial, no prob.
Steps to follow:
1 - Go to Start/Run and type:
telnet (your server address) 110
example: telnet adinet.com.uy 110
Note: the command console will prompt and you should see this (depending on your server address): +OK POP3 server ready <numbers> <more numbers @correo.adinet.com.uy> or you should just see this: +OK ready
2 - then type:
user (and your username)
example: user antionliner
Note: you should see this: +OK Password required
3 - so type:
pass (your e-mail password)
example: pass j34yhp7go5r
Note: you should see this: +OK (and number of e-mails) for example: +OK 10 messages
4 - To see the e-mails received type:
list
Note: you should see all the messages listed with its respectives numbers and sizes.
5 - To see the content of a determined e-mail write:
top (e-mail number) and (number of lines you want to see of that e-mail)
example: top 1 10
Note: you should see the e-mail content
That's all. Then:
6 - To delete a determined message write:
dele (and the e-mail number)
example: dele 1
Note: you should see this: +OK message 1 deleted
Note: After typing something you obviously should hit "Enter". Besides, if you open the command console and you don't see what you are typing it seems you have the "echo local" option deactivated, so go to the terminal/console preferences and activate it. There is no need to do this in Windows XP.
Well, this could be really useful if you're in a hurry and you need to check your e-mails real fast and you can't wait that your e-mail client (Outlook Express for example) download your e-mails from the server and (in that exact moment) an e-mail with a 1 MB attachment is preventing you from seeing the rest of your e-mails still in the server until the "big" attachment is fully downloaded.
Hope it helps,
DKRR
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February 15th, 2003, 05:58 PM
#2
Can also be usefull to clean up your mailbox if you've been flooded....
Ammo
Credit travels up, blame travels down -- The Boss
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February 15th, 2003, 10:24 PM
#3
this can be really handy indeed when the mail client gets bogged down.
<€0.04>
retr (number)
exampleL retr 1
will return the entire message
and for its twin, SMTP
telnet into the server on port 25
login as above, if you have to. some allow anonymous access with login name guest and pass guest or user anonymous and pass something@here.com or sometimes blank passwords, it depends.
once you are in
help
lists the commands available to you and
google
helps find what the commands do.
in short, to send an email
mail from: <whatever@this.com>
rcpt to: <them@whatever.com>
data
whatever, and
as much of whatever as
you want here
.
the '.' sends the message
</0.04>
e&oe
Hmm...theres something a little peculiar here. Oh i see what it is! the sentence is talking about itself! do you see that? what do you mean? sentences can\'t talk! No, but they REFER to things, and this one refers directly-unambigeously-unmistakably-to the very sentence which it is!
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February 17th, 2003, 06:42 AM
#4
Junior Member
Usually when i try to connect using telnet it just says that the host could not be reached (even when i use a port scanner) or the telnet window will not display any kind of echo or text.
Im using XP and when i use 2000, or 98 theres really no problem
Help!?!?!
\"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.\"
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February 17th, 2003, 07:51 AM
#5
Member
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are you running a firewall?if not check out if the win xp firewall is running in the backround.if yes disable it.then try again!
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February 17th, 2003, 08:51 AM
#6
Senior Member
example: pass j34yhp7go5r
That's my f****** password DK !
\"I have a 386 Pentium.\"
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February 17th, 2003, 10:13 AM
#7
Thanks DKRR, can I add tips for *nix? (I apologises DKRR I think.. off the topic from telnet,if you don't like it I'll erase ASAP), I've got "grepmail" installed on my *nix box. This is how I search my mail folder using "grepmail":
1. Let's say I wanna see a mail folder and have name "Toshiba Shop"
% grepmail -R -i -l toshiba ~/Mail
Mail/conf/acs_w01
2. Last week I was looking for the "phone number" of "Toshiba Shop", which was in a mail message somewhere, but I couldn't remember where I'd filed it. So I done this one:
% grepmail -i toshiba '!!' | grep -i telephone
Telephone: 365-652-654
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Not an image or image does not exist!
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