[ale] pop3 questions

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Mike Millson wrote:

> I'm running RH7.1.
>
> How do I specify the username and password for each pop3 account? Does each
> login have to by a system username and password?
>
> I'm able to use telnet to log into my box as follows:
> telnet localhost 110
> USER my_user_name
> PASS my_password
>
> Then it tells me I have no messages. How do I go about creating some test
> messages to read so I know that pop3 access is working? I saw what looked
> like a file w/ system e-mail messages in /var/mail/root. I tried copying
> /var/mail/root to var/mail/my_user_name, but it still said I had no messages
> when I telneted under my_user_name/my_password.

Try something like `echo "Testing 1 2 3" | mail ACCOUNT_NAME`. Once you
have sent a message, telnet to the POP3 server, and do the following:

user USERNAME
pass PASSWORD
stat (Returns the number of messages)
top 1 0 (Grab the headers from  message 1)

- Ryan

>
> Thank you,
> Mike
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale