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How to remove large mails yourself
Sometimes people with high capacity connections send you large E-mails. They don't keep in mind that the mail protocol is not designed for large messages, though it works for internal networks, it most probably does not when the message has to be transpo
rted across the Internet, and certainly not over an analog modem connection.
Another possibility is that mail messages are damaged or not in the proper format, this can also block off your mailbox and manual deleting of the message is then a fairly good solution.
Don't botter too much retreving such messages, if you should come across
such an event, do the following (don't try to get your message):
- check if you have a Telnet applictaion program. If you have Win95 or WinNT, you certainly have one, it's built in in the system. You just take the Start button and chose the Run Option.
and then type telnet.
If you use a Mac, there's NCSA Telnet.
- Start a Telnet session to
mail.niagara.com 110
If you use the Win95/WinNT telnet, you do it in Start - Run: telnet mail.niagara.com 110 and then click enter, in the other Telnet programs you just connect to the server as mentioned above.
If you were not yet connected to the Net, the modem will start dialing.
You will then see the following:
Connected to mail.niagara.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 2.4) at mail.niagara.com starting.
Then type
user xxxxxxxx
where xxxxxxxx is your username, so the same one that you use to make a connection to ICN.
You will see
+OK Password required for xxxxxxxx.
Then type
pass yyyyyyyy
where yyyyyyyy stands for your password as you got it from ICN.
Be very carefull, it could be possible that some Telnet clients don't allow you to see what you type here yourself, but type it anyway, you will see the server responding everytime you finisch a commamd with the Enter-key.
Then you're logged on to the pophost:
+OK xxxxxxxx has zz messages (wwwwwww octets)
where zz is the number of mails in your mailbox and wwwwwww the total size of your mailbox in octets (divide by 1000 to know the size in KB).
With the 'list' command you can see the number of the messages and the
size of each message in octets.
With the retr command you can read the message (don't do this if it is more than, say, 50 K, so more than 50000 octets. This command can help you to delete messages while still knowing the sender, if they got corrupted or if the message is in a fo
rmat your mailprogram doesn't understand.
E.g.
retr 1
will show you the first message.
With 'dele ' you can delete messages, e.g.
dele 1
will delete the first message in the list. With
quit
you leave this Telnet session.
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