
Now I do, and I think it's useful and interesting information. I had no idea what you could do once there. I knew you could telnet to the mail port.
TELNET FOR MAC MAC
many Mac users, myself included, have at most two years' of UNIX experience, and even then, it's not 100% of my time in the CLI. The intent of is not to only be the home of "super hints" for "super power users," but rather a collection of hints covering all facets of the system, at various levels of "lameness" or complexity. err on the side of publishing a hint that some view as "easy" or "lame" versus not publishing it. Right now, it's solely my decision, and I will. You'll note they are actually managed by Akamai, which is why the strange name of Note that Apple has a timeout on their webserver connections, so you actually have to do this fairly quickly. You'll get the Apple homepage echoed back to you. Keep in mind that this will work with other services as well. Telnet is highly discouraged from a security standpoint, which is why so many mail clients/servers support SSL communication these days. See for more information on the available POP3 commands to use once you've telnetted.Īlso, keep in mind that this is an insecure (plaintext) transmit of your. is a POP3 server, and port 110 is the standard POP3 port. It is very important to use the quit command, because none of the changes you make will take effect otherwise. The command dele 3 will delete message #3, while the command quit will log you out of your mailbox. The command top 2 will show you the contents of email #2, while the command top 2 10 will show you the first 10 lines of email #2. The command list will show a list of all your email, including the size of each. You are now connected directly to your own mailbox on the.
TELNET FOR MAC PASSWORD
Now type in pass followed by a space and then your password and hit return. Type in user followed by a space and then your. In Terminal, type (when online of course) telnet 110 and hit return. Here's something I just tried and found that worked.
