At 07:55 PM 8/6/01 -0400, Jeff Dougherty wrote the following:
>The first time this happened, I thought it was a Yahoo thing as it happened
>with an email in my Yahoo account.
>Today, when downloading email from my domain I got locked up on the seventh
>email, I noticed and an error in mshtml.dll and Outlook Express closed down
>on me.
>When I went to webmail it looked like ordinary spam to me.
>Is anyone familiar with this error?
>No big deal, except, until I realize what is happening, Outlook keeps
>downloading all the emails prior to the bad one, giving me lots of
>duplicates.
Telnet to the POP server...
This method is also useful for deleting a mail message that cannot be
downloaded to your PC with your normal e-mail program.
1. Connect to the Internet
2. Click on Start -- Run
3. Type: telnet
4. Click OK
5. Click on Terminal
6. Click on Preferences
7. Make sure there is check mark in front of Local Echo and then click OK
8. Click on Connect
9. Click on Remote System
10. In the Host Name field type the name of the POP mail server, like
mail.earthlink.net
11. In the Port field type: 110
12. Click on Connect
13. Type: user yourusername
14. Press enter
15. Type: pass yourpassword
16. Press enter
17. You will see text similar to this on the screen:
+OK EarthLink POP server (version: EL_3_10 ) at
pop05.earthlink.net. <22180.965
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user geboyd
+OK Password required for geboyd.
pass xxxxxxxx
+OK geboyd has 2 messages (1379 octets).
NOTE: Depending on the amount of mail in your mailbox the last line can take
several minutes to be displayed.
In your case you know that message 7 is the bad one so you can type
DELE 7
When done, type quit and you should see something like this.
quit
+OK Pop server at pop05.earthlink.net signing off.
18. Click on the close button to close the telnet window. NOTE: If you
delete (DELE) a mail message and don't use RSET to restore it, then when you
type QUIT, the message is deleted irretrievably and cannot be viewed by your
normal e-mail program.
* POP Basic Command Summary *
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
USER userid (Enter your e-mail username)
PASS password (Enter your mailbox password)
LIST (List the number of mail messages and their sizes in bytes)
LIST 4 (List message number 4)
STAT (Tell me how many messages there are and total size)
TOP 4 10 (Show me the first 10 lines of message number 4)
DELE 3 (Delete message number 3)
RSET (...on second thought, don't delete any messages)
RETR 5 (Show me all of message number 5)
UIDL 2 (Show unique message-id of message 2)
LAST (Tell me the number of the last message accessed)
NOOP (Do nothing. Useful for testing the server's response)
--
Gerry Boyd
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