Check your mail using telnet

At work we have pop access to the state shared email system. Every so often I have to check a users box to see if the box is jammed with a huge message or just to make sure the account is active. The easiest way for me to do this is using telnet. Below are some basic commands to get you going. If you want to know more lookup RFC 1725.

 

telnet pop3.mailserver.com 110 <– or what ever port your pop server is on

Commands

USER –this one is pretty straight forward. For a valid user you should get “+OK Password required for <account name>.”

PASS — again pretty easy. Reply after authentication should be: “+OK <account name> has <n> message(s) (MMMMM) octets”, where <n> is the number of messages in the mailbox (MMMMM) is the total size of all messages.

LIST — Lists all the messages by number as well as the size

RETR — this command along with the message number will display the message in text format. ex. retr 3

DELE — delete the message. ex. dele 3

2008

Happy New Year to all!

Open Source

Came across this link earlier. I think it’s a good reference for anyone wanting to explore the Open Source world.

Enjoy

Vista and DHCP

Came across this problem with our county’s hotspot and vista laptops. Apparently vista has issues with non-microsoft DHCP servers.

Here is the link to the KB article.

Cannot access help and support

Help and Support Error
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Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running.

To fix this problem, start the service named ‘Help and Support’.
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OK
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This issue is currently under investigation, however if you are currently experiencing this issue you can run the following commands to resolve the issue:

1. Open a command prompt.
2. Navigate to %windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries
3. Run this command:

start /w helpsvc /svchost netsvcs /regserver /install
4. Once this command completes the Help and Support service should now appear in services.msc
5. Start the Help and Support service

copy from command line

Came across this little tool from Tech Republic today. Copying info from the command prompt in windows meant using the ‘mark’ command. Server 2003 has a little command called clip.exe that makes this process simpler by piping the command to the clip program. Looks like the windows folks are finally catching up to some ideas the the *nix world has had for some time.

MTS (moving on)

Hello all.  I’ve moved on to a new blog to write about technology.

Linux For An Old Laptop

Don’t throw away that old hardware. You might find that a minimal Linux distro will work just fine on that old piece of equipment.

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HTML 5

W3C: “The World Wide Web’s markup language has always been HTML. HTML was primarily designed as a language for semantically describing scientific documents, although its general design and adaptations over the years has enabled it to be used to describe a number of other types of documents.The main area that has not been adequately addressed by HTML is a vague subject referred to as Web Applications. This specification attempts to rectify this, while at the same time updating the HTML specifications to address issues raised in the past few years.” [Read more ... ]

ESV on iPhone

Not exactly sure how this is going to work.  Since iPhone’s are so pricey, I probably won’t be using this anyway for a long, long time.  But I thought it was kind of interesting, and I think that it demonstrates that a lot of tech savvy people are scooping up the ESV as their bible version of choice.