I used to telnet to a pop server to read my mail (in the happy days before spam) because I worked at a place whose firewall wouldn't allow external pop access. What I did was telnet to a regular login outside the firewall, then telnet to my popserver.
$ telnet server.domain.com 110
Try giving the "HELP" command to find out what commands you can do.
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