On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > A good thing to demonstrate the remote capibilities of linux would be to > show how you can check a pop3 mailbox from a remote computer without having > to setup that account on the machine. Oh what, you mean something like: telnet some.mail.server 110 user username pass password list top 1 20 (to read the headers) top 1 40 top 1 60 top 1 80 etc etc etc Hehehe, I've checked my email like this many a time. *grin* Only thing to remember, don't leave more than 60 secs between commands or you get booted. Oh yes, and it doesn't work if the server wants ssl authentication, sorry, but I don't talk realtime ssl. *grin* Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
