For the truly hardcore (well, maybe not) it is possible to telnet to the POP3 port and manually login. It is a text based, standard protocol. I looked it up on the web at one point but don't remember the RFC number.
It is a fairly trivial thing to do. In fact Outlook Express kept choking on an email my mother was trying to download. I logged into the POP3 server through telnet, found the offending message and deleted it then Outlook would work. This may not be for the faint of heart but it is an option... The RFC will contain all the commands that you can use... A google search should produce some links... "Karl J. Runge" wrote: > > Is it possible to "cat" an Exchange/Outlook mailbox from a unix shell? > > I thinking of something simple for remote quick-and-dirty viewing > reading of email that exists in an Exchange environment. We have > WinVNC and that works fine, but it is not always operative. > > I'm thinking along the lines of being able to view (but not download) > ones POP/IMAP email via fetchmail like: > > % fetchmail -k -m cat <mailhost> | more > > (or collect to a file and run pine/elm/mutt/mailx on it). > One could do this on the road w/o having to modify mailbox. > > I know nothing about how Exchange works... is something like this possible? > > Thanks, > > Karl > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** -- ++------------------------++---------------------------------------++ || Todd Littlefield || Aprisma SPECTRUM Apps || || Aprisma Mgmt. Tech. || - Solutions Team || || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || - C, C++, Perl || || (603) 334-2593 || - HTML, CGI, Java || ++------------------------++---------------------------------------++ ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
