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If you have a pop3 server, you can log onto it with telnet 110 and interrogate the pop3 server. Here is how mine does it. I haven't shown the server responses. telnet YourIspMailServer 110 <----port for pop3 USER yourusername PASS yourpassword LIST <---------This shows you all your messages and their size,which I think includes attachments. DELE <message no> deletes the big one if you want

That's the weird part... there is no 'big one'. Just a lot of ordinary, mailing list traffic.

RETR <message no> gets the message, dumping it to your screen. TOP <message no> < Number of lines> Shows first part of message plus all headers. Takes two numbers, like TOP 3 5 QUIT Sign you off. .....................................................

I'd been thinking of checking this out. Thanks for the details. Question, though. I've ran into at least one ISP who treated telneting to a mail port as a prelude to an attack, and threatened all sorts of legal action, citing several state statutes, and promising to cancel my account at the next _hint_ of an attempt. Now granted, Yahoo! isn't in my state (Nebraska), so hopefully the same state statutes wouldn't necessarily apply, but I'm a little gunshy after that last one (and that was almost a year ago!) Any advice to the legality/wisdom of trying the above?

You may find an alternative approach to be :- __________________________________________________

http://webmail.netnation.com

.. . . go to their web-page.

In-Put your server details, User ID, Password

{ change Password soonest, thereafter }

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