A couple of people have mentioned this today and I did not see any replies so here goes. Another long meaningless message so hit the DEL key now unless you are bored. SMTP commands shortly. Open your telnet client. Start, Run, then type TELNET ALT+C, then Remote System Type IP of your POP3 server and put 110 in the Port box. Here are the commands, there is an example below showing an actual live session. USER - Your POP3 user name PASS - Your password STAT - Responds with number of messages in maildrop and size of mail drop in octets. LIST msg - If an argument is entered information on that message is returned. If no argument is entered then information on all messages are listed. Useful if you need to know number and size of messages in mail drop. RETR msg - Message is listed. DELE msg - Message is marked for deletion. Remember to use the QUIT command when finished so messages are deleted. NOOP - Does nothing, simply returns a positive response. RSET - If messages have been marked for deletion they are unmarked. TOP msg n - Returns header information for message and returns the number of lines of the message body represented by n. UIDL msg - Returns message number and a Unique message ID Listing. If the POP3 session is terminated for other reasons no update takes place and messages marked for deletion are not deleted. [Example with notes in brackets like this one] +OK X1 NT-POP3 Server demo.netease.net (IMail 5.05 48-1) user dusty +OK welcome pass ********* +OK maildrop locked and ready stat [list statistics on mailbox] +OK 3 2577 [returns message count of 3 total 2577 bytes list [list messages] +OK 3 messages (2577 octets) [returns message number and size of each] 1 1171 2 1021 3 385 . retr 3 [retrieves message number 3] +OK 385 octets Received: from [208.10.167.165] by sweetwater.netease.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id AC28801E8; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:15:20 -0500 Message-Id: <199908192015750.SM00960@> X-RCPT-TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:15:55 -0500 X-UIDL: 230371285 Status: U From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: test Hi Dusty . uidl 3 [returns message identifier] +OK 3 230371285 top 3 2 [returns header and first 2 lines of message 3] +OK 385 octets Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:15:55 -0500 Status: U From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dele 2 [marks message 2 for deletion] +OK msg deleted rset [oops I did not want to delete message 2] +OK 0 list [list again to make sure they are there] +OK 3 messages (2577 octets) 1 1171 2 1021 3 385 . quit [get me out of here] +OK POP3 Server saying Good-Bye Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
