Hi Folks,
Sam Heywood wrote:
> AFAIK, anyone having an account on any POP3 mail server
> anywhere in the world may delete any offending message simply
> by using Telnet. Other than the rate you normally pay for your
> internet connection time, it doesn't cost you anything to use
> Telnet and you won't spend more than a minute of your time.
I wish !
Sadly, my main mail server ISP has blocked telnet access to the
server, even the mail server, even MY mailbox. And refuses to change
that.
To clear my mailbox I am obliged to fire up Win3.1 and retrieve my
mail with Netscape 3.04, which downloads and clears OK, but refuses to
display the offending (Andy's) message and often the next message as
well. At that point I get into it with a text editor and pull out each
message and send them to Arachne as *.CNM files.
My other two ISPs are both OK by telnet to the mailbox.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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