Hello Thomas,
Thursday, January 06, 2000, 3:49:44 PM, you wrote:
LEM>> You can telnet to the POP server and send the POP commands "by
LEM>> hand" ;-) Like that:
TF> [...]
TF> I see they have improved - you couldn't do that "back then". :-)
No, that's what your POP client does. As soon as you have a POP server
and account, you can telnet (on the port 110) of the POP server, and
the server will not make any difference between you and your POP
client. Try it with your current ISP's POP account.
LEM>> The "pure text" access seems to be, at least commercially,
LEM>> dropped now.
TF> Even many "normal" ISP's won't let you work on the unix any more. When
TF> I telnet into my Thai account, it will automatically start pine, and
TF> quitting pine will automatically log you off. On ibm.net, "connection
TF> refused" is the mantra. So Cserve is in line with the overall trend.
TF> :-(
I tested it, and it still works flawlessly, though.
I don't really see why you absolutely wanted to access your e-mail by
Telnet. For your POP mailbox, you could use any mail program you
wished to, even if connected to the Internet via another ISP. For your
"normal" mailbox, you could use the Compuserve program, even if
connected to the Internet via another ISP. So you could access your
e-mail from another ISP, where's the problem?
LEM>> Compuserve limits both now... Max 10MB/msg, max 30MB total, max
LEM>> 250 msgs.
TF> Wow! 30MB server space is lot more than I have (between 1MB and 6MB
TF> per mail account).
Yeah, I know, it was a very pleasant news when they created the POP
mail. But with the new 250 messages limit, this is unreachable: The
mailing lists I subscribed to flood me with tiny messages, always less
than 2KB. 30MB without any number of messages limit was cool. After 2
or 3 days, my mailbox is full... Before the "improvement" I could quit
everything for 2 months. I had 1500 messages, but less than 30MB, so
everything was fine: Mailbox not full.
TF>>> By the way, can you FTP into your account and save files on the
TF>>> server?
(cut the explanations)
I don't think you can do it.
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