Capturing telnet

Thanks to Arthur and some of the others that responded, I would like to
share the solution to capturing my mail message using telnet. As Arthur
already pointed out, you really shouldn't use telnet 'in the wild' but
the e-mail provider doesn't provide a secure method of getting the
messages....bummer!

Here is the command:

telnet pop3.example.com 110 2>&1 | tee messagefile

I then use the following sequence to remove the topmost message from my
mailbox:

user <username>
pass <password>
retr 1
....wait until the message is finished displaying....
quit

This worked great!

I had to edit out some of the text from the top of the file.....Arthur
would be disappointed because I used vi to get rid of the top of the
mail message instead of a cool sed script....sorry about that! :)

I hope someone else finds this useful!

Mike

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