* Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-21 01:13]: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:25:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2Mb > > > jpeg file that mozilla chokes on, meaning he keeps trying to get it > > > off the server, which fails after a while, who knows why. > > > > fetchmail, mutt, gnus... > > > > > So I want to delete that file from the server, without trying to > > > download it. > > > > Why not use fetchmail to fetch it? > > > To delete the mails without downloading, use poppy.
If you desire to do it manually, you can use telnet to connect to the POP server. Briefly, here is the commands required: telnet pop.server.ipaddr 110 USER xxxxx PASS yyyyy STAT LIST x RETR x DELE x QUIT where: 110 is the normal POP port xxxxx is your userid on the server yyyyy is your password x is the msg in question regards, Lou > > Regards, > > -- > Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 > Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 > > Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. > -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]