On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:06:37 +0200 Israeli Standard Time, Shelomo ben-Avraham wrote:
> 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.
<snip>
> 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.
> Anybody else have useful tricks for Telneting?
> shalom,
> Shelomo
Hello:
It sure is good to be able to use Telnet in order to deal with the kind of
problem described above. I used to have similar problems every now and
then with the POP3 server at my former ISP. I was always able to simply
delete the offending file from the server simply by using Telnet. With my
current ISP I have so far never suffered the experience of having a message
getting "stuck" on the POP3 server. If I should ever have a problem like
that, I don't know what I could do about it. My current ISP does not even
permit its subscribers to accesss the POP3 server by means of Telnet.
I wonder why they would have a policy of prohibiting Telnet access. Does
anyone have any thoughts on the matter?
Sam Heywood
P.S. To see a web page having really great tips on the usefulness of
Telnetting, go to http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e8926506.siberia.htm
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