by'"`--
Wanted to add to the matter of fixing a the files at a non-working
mail account using Telnet. I, too, had a non-working account at
hotpop.com for almost a month, while about 220 letters accumulated.
The problem was that the 57th letter was unreadable on the hotpop
machine (disk error?), and the download always got stuck there.
When I tried using Or's advice with the telnet.exe that is one of the
APM's at the Arachne site, the program refused to accept
pop.hotpop.com:110 but worked just fine with pop.hotpop.com 110 (that
is, space instead of standard colon to indicate port).
The "list" command got me an unreadable display of all 220 file
numbers and sizes, but "list 57" got the size of the bad file and
"dele 57" deleted it and fixed my problem. After "quit", I returned
to arachne and just downloaded the whole remaining 219 letters in one
clean download.
Thanks to Or for the good advice about using Telnet with POP3 servers,
and thanks to Michael for the APM Telnet (which works just fine for
lots of other telnet functions, too).
Anybody else have useful tricks for Telneting?
shalom,
Shelomo
