[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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