-Michael D Hildenbrand wrote:
-Mark,
- Normaly Telnet is used to log into a distant server, like a Unix
-server to read email. Usually, these servers have Pine to read email.
-You don't say, but are you using Pine? Telnet is usually just a vehicle
-to get to the destination.
I don't know what Pine is. My server is hotpop.com
When I start TELNET I log on with:
pop.hotpop.com 110
>On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:15:55 -0500 Mark David Roth
> I finally found out a little bit about TELNET. I wanted to use it to
>delete some files from my email server. I was able to login OK and it
>seemed to accept the deletions I wanted to make. But I know I need a
>successful update to get them to work and I couldn't do it. I tried
>entring
>UPDATE and I got back an -err message. When I tried the QUIT command I
>also
>got an -err message for that butit did quit and return to Arachne. It
>did
>not successfuly delete the messages. What else can I do to get it to
>work?
>Is there something wrong with the copy of TELNET that I have?
