Questions tagged [pop3]

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve messages from a remote e-mail server.

As well as being supported by local e-mail clients POP3 is also supported by most webmail services such as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

POP3 is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include:

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) tcp
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) udp
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) icmp
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) http
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) ftp
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) imap

POP3 on Wikipedia

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Delete message from POP3 without 'quit'

Is there a way to force-delete a message from a POP3 server without sending 'quit'? So, for example, right now I have: >> dele 1 << +OK Deleted. >> quit << +OK Bye-bye. I want something where I can flush the deleted messages before the quit, >>…

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asked Jan 25 '13 at 09:29

chroder