Open a telnet session to port 110 of pop.mailserver.com
> telnet pop.lmi.net 110 Trying 208.25.68.10 ... Connected to pop.lmi.net. Escape character is '^]'. +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at lanfill.lanminds.com starting.
It won't come up with a prompt. It will just blink at you on the next line.
Type in user lusername and, of course, replace lusername with the actual pop username of the customer in question (the first part of their e-mail address at lmi.net. In the example luser@lmi.net, the pop account user name would be luser).
+OK QPOP (version 2.53) at lanfill.lanminds.com starting. user mdm +OK Password required for mdm.
Yet another unfriendly blinking prompt. What now? Well, tell it their password in the format of pass luserpassword. It will display plainly on the screen for all to see, so I am going to just X mine out, if'n y'all don't mind.
+OK Password required for mdm. pass ******** +OK mdm has 179 messages (338413 octets).
Wow. Looky at that. I sure have a lot of messages, don't I?
They're taking up about 338k, though. Not too big of a deal.
But wait! There's more!
Here's the beauty of going in through the pop server instead of Pine...you can get a list of the messages sitting there and even view a piece of them without seeing the whole ugly message or changing their read status.
Type in list at the prompt. Check this out:
+OK mdm has 179 messages (338413 octets). list +OK 179 messages (338413 octets) 1 515 2 727 3 1766 4 685 5 661 6 1254 7 2257 8 1331 9 1398 *snip* 169 1213 170 1129 171 827 172 1038 173 41092 174 1374 175 963 176 1278 177 1910 178 1336 179 1639 .
That's a lot of messages.
Gee. Message number 173 looks a bit large. Let's check that one out!
Type in top 173 5 and you'll see the message headers and about the first 5 lines of the message, which looks about like this mess:
top 173 5
+OK 41092 octets
Return-Path: <rcotter@lmi.net>
Received: from leprechaun (leprechaun.lanminds.com [207.33.49.14])
by lanshark.lanminds.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA13333
for <all@lmi.net>; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:32:32 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: <rcotter@lmi.net>
From: "Robert Cotter" <rcotter@lmi.net>
To: "All" <all@lmi.net>
Subject: "REASON CODE: CNP" - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You Frekkin' Buy This Ting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:33:59 -0700
Message-ID: <000401beea71$673d0990$0e3121cf@leprechaun.lanminds.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01BEEA36.BADE3190"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3
X-UIDL: fcdf024662ee89130cf1de100d791514
Status: RO
X-Status:
X-Keywords:
X-UID: 349
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BEEA36.BADE3190
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
.
Headers and all. Handy, hm? Looks like this one was an e-mail from Robert to everyone about DSL.
Now, if we want to delete this thing (but it's so useful! Why would we want to? Well, maybe it's clogging up our e-mail download), we'd type at the prompt:
dele 173
And that would get rid of it.
Some other commands:
> stat prints number messages
> retr retrieves a specified number of messages
Don't forget to quit out of it when you're done so that the user can get back into their e-mail!
That's about all there is to it.
Enjoy.