On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, David Laight wrote:
> 
> > $ telnet mail.xyz.com pop3
> > ...
> > user username
> > ...
> > pass password
> > ...
> > list
> > ...
> > top <mail item number> <number of lines>
> > ...
> 
> And to retrieve the entire single message:
> 
>  retr <mail item number>

I just couldn't remember that one!

Sometime I get a mail item that locks the connection when fetchmail
tries to retrieve it.  Running fetchmail again fetches all the
messages again, then locks in the same place.
A shell script echoing commands into telnet can be used to clear
the downloaded messages and the one causing the problem.

Oh - I think recent versions of mutt can be configured to read
a pop3 mailbox, but I don't know why - that isn't its job.

You also want to consider using maildrop to distribute mail to
different mailboxes.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk