This week seems to be all about email. Reading it, scripting against it, parsing it, but unfortunately not a whole lot of deleting it. I really need to get in line with Inbox Zero.
Anyways, I came across a nifty little ditty for quickly checking message counts, and well, doing a lot of the basic functions of email checking. Nothing to download, nothing to configure, and best of all its all done right at the cl (command line). ** In windows to get to a command line go: START -> RUN, and then enter cmd
> telnet mymailserver.com 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to mymailserver.com Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 server ready. user cgmckeever +OK please send PASS command pass supersecretpassword +OK cgmckeever is welcome here list +OK 234 messages
Heres a list of the codes:
- USER username - Identify the user
- Pass password - Enter password
- LIST - List all emails available
- RETR # - Retrieve specified message number
- DELE # - Delete specified message after logout
- QUIT - Close and exit the session
Like I said, just a little ditty I wanted to share - I got a kick out of it.
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