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tom@black.interact.net.au (tom minchin) writes:

>"Jonathan Jermey" <Diagonal@onaustralia.com.au> writes:
>>Twice now I've been unable to access my e-mail from a POP server because
>>it's been queued behind a big message which won't download. I've looked at
>>various Win95 mail notification programs but haven't been able to find one
>>that will allow the user to delete mail directly from the server without
>>downloading it to my own PC - i.e. after showing me the headers but before
>>trying to download the text. Can anyone point me to a program that will do
>>this?

>If you have a decent telnet program you can do this:

>telnet popserver.com.au

Should be:
telnet popserver.com.au. 110
(or "telnet popserver.com.au. 109" if it's not a POP3 server)

>user yourusername
>pass yourpassword

>Then you can do a 'list' and use 'dele messagenumber' on the offending
>message. You can look at the top of the message to make sure you've got
>the right one by doing a 'top numberoflines messagenumber'.

Cheers,
Marty.
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