Re: Downloading a message using telnet

Thanks Arthur.

Now all I have to do is read the manpage for tee and I am on my way!

Thanks.

Mike

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 23:04, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Barsalou wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to download a single message using telnet? I just want
> > to get one message off of my server and not even touch the others. I
> > would like this message to end up in its own file.
>
> I think you need to define your problem a little more. I assume you mean an
> e-mail message? Then the answer is yes, provided your server supports POP3 or
> IMAP.
>
> Telnet'ing to my POP3 server to retrieve and delete your e-mail would look
> like this:
>
> acorliss@bifrost:~$ telnet localhost pop3
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK POP3 localhost v2003.83 server ready
> USER acorliss
> +OK User name accepted, password please
> POASS^H^H^H
> -ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command
> PASS yu4Shiung
> +OK Mailbox open, 15 messages
> TOP 15 1
> +OK Top of message follows
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> Is there a way to download a single message using telnet? I just want
> .
>
> RETR 15
> +OK 2499 octets
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> Is there a way to download a single message using telnet? I just want
> to get one message off of my server and not even touch the others. I
> would like this message to end up in its own file.
>
> Mike
> --
> Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
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> DELE 15
> +OK Message deleted
> QUIT
>
> Now, please note that I used the TOP command to retrieve the first part of the
> e-mail just to make sure I identified the right one. That's an optional
> command in the RFC, so your daemon may or may not recognise. In any event,
> you can use a succession of TOP commands to locate your e-mail, then RETR and
> DELE to retrieve and delete it.
>
> Of course, you're going to need to be tee'ing this to a file or something in
> order to actually capture it (or use expect). I'll leave it to you to figure
> out an easy sed statement that will extract it from the session. ;-)
>
> The same holds true for IMAP (though the protocol is much more complicated due
> to the features it provides--however, it has a *much* better search capability
> to quickly locate the e-mail you're looking for).
>
> Ultimately, if you're going to automate such a process you're best off
> learning expect, in order to allow it to programmatically search and retrieve
> your message.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
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