{"id":550,"date":"2012-07-20T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-07-20T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T15:09:28","slug":"telnet-pop-commands-retrieving-mail-using-telnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Telnet &#8211; POP Commands (retrieving mail using telnet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to access your mailbox you will need 4 things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An active internet connection<\/li>\n<li>The address of your pop mail server (e.g. mail.domain.ext)<\/li>\n<li>Your username (e.g. UserName\/Email Address normally)<\/li>\n<li>Your password (e.g. Password)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first thing to do is to open a connection from your computer to your mail server.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">telnet mail.domain.ext 110<\/pre>\n<p>You should receive a reply like:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">Trying ???.???.???.???...\r\nConnected to mail.domain.ext.\r\nEscape character is '^]'.\r\n+OK ready<\/pre>\n<p>Then log in:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">USER userName<\/pre>\n<p>This should give you:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">+OK Password required for userName.<\/pre>\n<p>Now give your password:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">PASS passW0rd<\/pre>\n<p>Should yeild:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">+OK userName has ? visible messages (? hidden) in ????? octets.<\/pre>\n<p>To see a list of your emails awaiting collection use the <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">LIST<\/pre>\n<p> command, this will also show you the id number of your messages (e.g. 1 or 2 etc.)<br \/>\nTo view the contents of an email type <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">RETR<\/pre>\n<p> + the id number of the message (e.g <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">RETR 1<\/pre>\n<p>).<br \/>\nTo delete a message use <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">DELE<\/pre>\n<p> + the id number of the message (e.g <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">DELE 1<\/pre>\n<p>).<br \/>\nTo leave your mailbox and close the connection use <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:bash\">QUIT<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In order to access your mailbox you will need 4 things: An active internet connection The address of your pop mail server (e.g. mail.domain.ext) Your username (e.g. UserName\/Email Address normally) Your password (e.g. Password) The first thing to do is to open a connection from your computer to your mail server. telnet mail.domain.ext 110 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95],"tags":[241,240,239,242,238,243,237],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-cmd","tag-command-line","tag-email","tag-mail","tag-pop3","tag-smtp","tag-telnet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p12j6H-8S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}