- Open your command prompt.
- At the command prompt, type in
telnet example.com 110 - Type user and the email address (username@example.com) of the user for which you wish to view emails:
user username@example.com - Then type in pass followed by your password:
pass yourpasswordgoeshere - Type list to bring up a list of your emails:
list - You will see a list of items with labels like “1 897” and “2 5136.” Here is an example:
list +OK POP3 clients that break here, they violate STD53. 1 897 2 5136 3 1884 4 2973 5 2595 6 3063 7 3509 8 2283 9 1926 10 2763 11 1795 12 2780 13 2342 14 2342 15 2342 16 3833 17 2211 18 793 19 797 20 2599 .
- If you wish to read an email message such as 2 5136, you can type the following:
retr 2
- If you want to delete a message such as 1 897, type dele 1:
dele 1
- When you are done checking your email, type quit.