[ale] deleting email before downloading (pop3)

Mon Aug 9 14:26:14 EDT 2004

Actually, the SIMPLEST simplest way would just be to use telnet. No
special software required. 

Connect to your pop server with telnet on port 110, authenticate with USER
username, PASS password, then use the standard POP3 commands to do
whatever you want. LIST will give you a listing of the messages in your
mailbox, RETR # will show you the contents of the message (replace # with
the number of the message) and DELE # will delete it.

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Thus Spake "Preston Boyington" <PBoyington at polyengineering.com>:
Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:43:09 -0500

> is there a program that i can use to delete mail from pop3 boxes (from
> mindspring dial-up)?
> 
> i found "pop3browser" and a couple of others, but haven't been able to
> get it to work properly.
> 
> the machine that i want to do this with is running Debian Woody.
> 
> anyone use something like this and can give a bit of help?
> 
> thanks,
> Preston
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