Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:02:00 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing pop3 messages Message-ID: <20000526150200.A3410@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <392E80C6.E3A47F59@wmptl.com> References: <392E80C6.E3A47F59@wmptl.com>
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Nathan Vidican wrote: > When I telnet into a POP3 server, I can do a 'dele 1' then 'dele 2' then > 'dele 3', etc. etc. How do I accomplish a 'dele *' ? I want to flush all > messages out; but I'm not sure of the command (or even if there is such > a command?) If you have netcat installed (program name "nc") you could try, ( echo USER foo echo PASS bar for i in $(jot 1 50); do echo DELE $i done echo QUIT ) | nc your.pop3.host 110 untested, but you get the idea. Replace "50" with the correct number, which you can get with the "STAT" command IIRC. There are probably programs to do this, but it seems like overkill when a simple script like the above should work. If you don't have netcat installed, install it, NOW! :-) It's in ports/net/netcat, unsurprisingly. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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