These steps show how to check your e-mail on a pop3 server using a telnet client.
Telnet to the pop3 server.telnet pop3.somedomain.com 110
You should recieve a reply to this effect.
Trying A.B.C.D...
Connected to pop3.somedomain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK (rwcrpxc13) POP3 server
user username_here
You should recieve the following reply.+OK
Enter your password for the pop3 e-mail account using the "pass" command.pass password_here
You should recieve the following reply.+OK Maildrop ready
List the mail on the pop3 e-mail account using the "list" command.list
You will see the list of messages on the server.
+OK scan listing follows
1 1489
2 7652
.
retr 1
You will see the whole e-mail headers and all.
+OK 1489 octets
Return-path:
Received: from blah (blah.somedomain.net [a.b.c.d])
by blah2.somedomain.net
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003))
with ESMTP id <0HHF00C6KK6NXJ@blah2.somedomain.net> for
me@here.net; Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:54:23 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:52:59 -0400
From: Me
Subject: test
To: you@there.net
Reply-to: me@here.net
Message-id: <200307022352.59679.me@here.net>
Organization: Pantz.org
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
Content-disposition: inline
User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1
Original-recipient: rfc822;me@here.net
test
dele 1
You will then see a delete confirmation.+OK message deleted
To finish issue the quit command.quit
+OK
Connection closed by foreign host.
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