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Another Reason I Run My Own E-Mail Server

Reading the New York Times Article “Can’t Open Your E-Mailbox? Good Luck” I find tales of woe like this one: Discussion forums abound with tales of woe from Gmail customers who have found themselves locked out of their account for days or even weeks. They were innocent victims of security measures, which automatically suspend access [...]

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2008 10 05 Jeremy Phillips Comments (2)

Testing POP3 & IMAP via Telnet

We’ve already covered SMTP, here is how to test POP3 & IMAP with telnet. POP3 telnet mail.domain.com pop3 +OK Hello there. user user@domain.com +OK Password required pass <password> +OK list 1 1024 2 2944 3 99456 . dele 2 +OK quit Connection closed by foreign host IMAP telnet mail.domain.com imap * OK Microsoft Exchange Server [...]

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