Was not sure where to post this, so I thought here would be good.
I have been trying to finish up with an old email account at work, it was set up 6 years ago and is now pretty much obsolete, but we do still get the occasional email to it.
Lately however, we are experiencing problems getting emails from it and get server timed out error messages, so I thought I would Telnet into the email server to see if there was anything of importance there.
When I try open pop3.cwcom.net 110, I am told to press any key, when I do nothing happens, unless I press Enter, then it comes up disconnected.
Yep. You don't know how to speak POP3. But I do! Though this is not really advisable, because if you can telnet into it successfully, you can use a client on it.
You cannot really backspace or you'll get errors (most telnet clients send ^H when you backspace, but POP3 dictates ^H is a character, not a command)
Here is what a transcript should look like [what you will type is in bold] :
+OK POP3 <snip> <snip> server ready
USER djlizard
+OK User name accepted, password please
PASS *******
+OK Mailbox open, 33 messages (all spam)
LIST
1 2458
2 1739
3 8233
4 7773
5 1135
6 19369
7 5593
8 5118
9 18455
10 4055
11 18464
12 5852
13 4661
14 1543
15 13535
<that's ID # and then size, in bytes>
.
RETR 1
+OK 2458 octets
Return-Path: <snip>
Received: from <snip> ([<snip>])
by <snip> (<snip>/<snip>) with SMTP id <snip>
for <<snip@snip.snip>>; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:33:06 -0700