[Nottingham] deleting selected POP3 mail

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, James Gibbon wrote:
> So, to come to the point - is there a (preferably lightweight)
> Linux mailer which will allow me to:

    $ telnet pop3.example.com pop3
    USER foobar
    PASS S3cReT

> [*] read my mail on the move, leaving it on the mailserver

    LIST
    RETR 1
    RETR 2
    RETR 3
    RETR 4

> [*] delete selected POP3 mail on the mailserver, so I can remove spam

    DELE 2
    DELE 3

> [*] browse POP3 mail by headers without actually downloading it

    TOP 2 0
    TOP 3 0
    TOP 4 0

should do what you want, then:

    QUIT

	-Paul
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