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For use when troubleshooting email problems with telnet (or parsing email in your head) . First you must telnet to the POP3 sever, in Windows or Linux, enter a terminal and type: telnet [host [port]] Where host is the POP3 server you want to connect to and port is generally the standard POP3 port 110. Minimal POP3 Commands: USER name valid in the AUTHORIZATION state PASS string QUIT STAT valid in the TRANSACTION state LIST [msg] RETR msg DELE msg NOOP RSET QUIT valid in the UPDATE state Optional POP3 Commands: APOP name digest valid in the AUTHORIZATION state TOP msg n valid in the TRANSACTION state UIDL [msg] POP3 Replies: +OK -ERR This information gathered via various websites and this document: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1939.txt