> Hi Wayne, > > Very good comment; using telnet on the POP port is good for > low-bandwidth connections, and it also is a good way of playing with > POP and getting acquainted with the matter. The interactivity, > however, comes from telnet, and not from POP in this case, if I > understand it correctly?
I would have said the interactivity lay with the POP3 server as it responds to the commands I feed it via telnet. Whatever the case, I find it very handy to be able to do it. http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/pop3telnet.htm showed me how to do it. Wayne
