With POP3, you can dele any message number you wish without downloading anything else. What happens is I run fetchmail and the thang chokes on a particular item (socket error or some such.) Logging on with telnet 110 lets me dele this item. I would just like to know some magic for retr'ing a mail item to a file. Joel
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:16:41PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:00:04PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > >I have occasion to talk directly to my email server (POP 3) with telnet > >when an email just hangs up with fetchmail and I have to dele the item > >manually. > > > >So, I would like to know how, when using telnet to talk to my POP server, > >I can direct the email I download to my regular mail file. The output > >by default comes right to the screen. > > If your POP3 server also does IMAP, you could access it that way and delete > the message without downloading anything other than the headers. > > You could also use ``script'' to get the output of your telnet session into > a file. > > Bill > -- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
