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Author : Netw0rk Bug

Date : JUNE 1999

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If you want to quickly check your mail while you are at school, college,

work or what ever and you do not want to create a new mailbox on the 

‘puter you are using then this is a quick and easy method you can use. 

This is also useful to know if you have been mail bombed by some

lamer…

So what’s first? Well, you need to find out the name of the server that 

you receive your mail from. For demonstration purposes I will be using 

mail.server.com You will need to connect to port 110 on their server to 

retrieve or view your mail. If you open up a command prompt and type

“telnet mail.yourmailserver.com 110”

You will be able to log into your mail server, So type

‘user nbug’ where nbug is your username you use to collect your mail

then type 

‘pass password’ where password is your e-mail password.  

It should then tell you how many messages are waiting in your mailbox, 

or congrats, or something like that.

Type ‘list’ to get a list of all the messages, they each will have a 

number beside them.

Type ‘retr #’ where # is the number next to the message you want to 

read.  This will allow you to read it, but it stays on the server.

Remove any messages you don’t want by typing ‘dele #’ where # is the 

number you want to delete.

It is VERY IMPORTANT that you disconnect properly. You must type ‘quit’

before closing telnet or you may lock up your mail box. Now by me 

saying this I know that people out there are thinking, hey, I don’t 

like george, I know his e-mail password, I think I’ll lock up his 

mailbox… well I just give you the knowledge, Its up to you what you 

do with it.  However, this does not work with all mail servers.

If you want a sneak peek at someone’s mail and don’t want them to know 

you have been looking at it then the following mau be very useful to 

you.

after the ‘retr’ command, the mail gets marked with a -R or something. 

whenever you go to get your email at your house, you will notice that 

it has already been read.  to keep it from looking like it’s already 

been read, type ‘rset’ before you quit to reset it back to the original

way it was.

This is useful for checking other people’s email.