On Tue, 08 May 2001 20:05:20 MaD dUCK wrote: > figure out which mail it is (i.e. which index), then telnet to port > 110 of your isp and delete it yourself with the following command > sequence (this is POP3): > > %> telnet mail 110 > USER username > PASS password > DELE 35 > QUIT > > you can use RETR 34, RETR 35, RETR 36, etc. before to make sure you > are deleting the right message.
Except you'll then try to download the 200k email. try using top instead of retr. It'll get the headers plus a bunch of lines of the message. e.g. "top 34 10" will get you the headers and 10 lines of text from message #34. You may also want to try "LIST" and "STAT" to find out what's there. Most pop3 servers will respond with a list of message number/number of bytes in message to "LIST". e.g. LIST +OK ... 34 39519 35 979 36 979 TOP 34 1 <headers confirming that this is indeed the spam I want to delete> DELE 34 QUIT
