Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Using Telnet with a POP3 Mail Server

Using Telnet with a POP3 Mail Server

A Tutorial by Michael Santovec


It is possible, with many ISPs, to use a Telnet program to do maintenance on your mailbox on the POP3 mail server. This allows you to look at, and possibly delete, any problem causing message (e.g. too large to download, improperly formatted message, etc.)

The instructions below are based on the Win95 TELNET.EXE program. See here for some other Telnet programs and operating systems.

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