On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ron Clarke wrote:
> If I type domain.net.au 110 [enter]
> ... I get about 3 seconds of apparent connection, then, before I can
> type user ... I am back at the DOS prompt again.
It appears they've put a short time-out on the
connection to make it difficult to type manually.
I think I recall that there's scripting capability
with that telnet.
You could set it up so that your script waits for
a "prompt" (actually, something similar to
+OK POP3 localhost v7.64 server ready), whereupon
it replys with "user nnn" and then waits for
something like
+OK User name accepted, password please
to which the script would answer accordingly.
At that point, you might try taking over manually,
but if the timeout is based on idle time, you'd
have to automate the entire process... which would
end up being a kind of "e-mail preview" program.
> That is what I thought. So what should I try next ? How do I
> telnet into my mailbox, when my ISP thinks I am not allowed to ?
> (BTW: My second ISP is just fine with telnet.)
>
> All I really wanted to do was to look at what was there, identify the
> HUGE SirCam worms, and delete them, thus saving myself a lengthy
> download at a per-minute rate.
Even more reason to go with a scripted "preview"
then. You could login, list, & top, capturing it
all. Examine the tops, and then issue dele's for
the ones that you don't want.
Matter of fact, I believe Netscape 4.x has a function
where you specify a limit on e-mail length... say 50k.
Then any e-mail that's longer gets "top"ped, and you
can tell it whether you want to download the rest of
the message.
Maybe something like that could be implemented in
Insight (or is it Mailman?)
- Steve
