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This howto is about listing your mail via telnet

1. connect to your sever

if you provider is sezampro.yu most likely servers pop3 address is

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pop3.sezampro.yu

to connect open telnet on win ( start:run:telnet )

type

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open pop3.sezampro.yu 110

110 is common port were the messages are stored

when you are in do :

user you_user_name
pass your_password

if user is crash0 then

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user crash0

if you password is joke then

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pass joke

now when you are reconised you may see you messages

command list is used for this so type it

if you have two mails it will look something like this naturaly number 117 and 707 won't be the same

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list
1 117
2 707
+ok

to see text of message 1 117 type

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top 1 5

| |---- means to print first 5 lines of message
|
|------ this means that we wants first message of these two writen up

to see status of msg do :

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stat

it will list you something like this

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2 824

--------- message id add 707+117=824
|
|---------- number of messages

to delete msg type

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delete 1

number_of_message ( 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...)

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retr

----- display msg number

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rset

---- unmarks messages marked for deletion in this session so that the QUIT command will not delete them

and to exit pop3 server type

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quit

that should help you to see your messages via telnet on pop3 server

crack0 wrote:This howto is about listing your mail via telnet

1. connect to your sever

if you provider is sezampro.yu most likely servers pop3 address is

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pop3.sezampro.yu

to connect open telnet on win ( start:run:telnet )

type

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open pop3.sezampro.yu 110

110 is common port were the messages are stored

when you are in do :

user you_user_name
pass your_password

if user is crash0 then

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user crash0

if you password is joke then

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pass joke

now when you are reconised you may see you messages

command list is used for this so type it

if you have two mails it will look something like this naturaly number 117 and 707 won't be the same

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list
1 117
2 707
+ok

to see text of message 1 117 type

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top 1 5

| |---- means to print first 5 lines of message
|
|------ this means that we wants first message of these two writen up

to see status of msg do :

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stat

it will list you something like this

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2 824

--------- message id add 707+117=824
|
|---------- number of messages

to delete msg type

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delete 1

number_of_message ( 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...)

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retr

----- display msg number

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rset

---- unmarks messages marked for deletion in this session so that the QUIT command will not delete them

and to exit pop3 server type

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quit

that should help you to see your messages via telnet on pop3 server

this is usefull in situations when you don't want to make email account or to use any program ... , just to check out you mail, for example from some remote machine