----- Original Message ----- From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Oded Arbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:47 PM Subject: Re: pop3 problem
> > I'm not sure I read this correctly, but... > > What about: > > telnet mail.server.address 110 > USER username > PASS secret > LIST > RETR 1 > RETR 2 > ... > QUIT > > At which stage exactly are there troubles? I guess, at RETR part - what you describe here should work OK, as long as you DELE after you RETR each message. also - telneting to the POP3 to RETR your messages is a poor practice, as it's very hard/anoying to keep your emails on your computer (like it's expected when you use POP3) especially when getting emails with attachments. > > That highly depends on the size of the message. One message in the size of > 1MB can be more of a toruble-maker than a batch of 20 messages of the size > of 10kb Correct. my statement should have included the word "average" somewhere within itself. > > and delete each after you download it. If you encounter > > disconnetions (which you will probably will) then just reconnect and > > continue where you left. > > If an imap service on the box is also available, then it can be used. but > you should configure the imap client not to download the whole mailbox by > default (I seem to recall that this is OE's default). In the case I describe, IMAP would break when trying to list the messages, so POP3 was actually the fallback. Oded -- In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
