[Nottingham] deleting selected POP3 mail

James Gibbon james.gibbon at virgin.net
Tue Mar 2 00:48:34 GMT 2004


Paul Sladen wrote:
> 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
> 

Many thanks Paul, that's useful to know, but at the moment the 
Windows mailer is looking like the more inviting option :)

Anyone know a Linux program I can navigate with a mouse that will
give me the above functionality?






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