Jon Harrison wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:42:31 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>>Better and a lot faster than webmail interfaces would be to TELNET to 
>>your ISP's POP3 server
>>    
>>
>
>Nope, been there, done that.  They have telnet blocked.
>
>Thanks anyway,
>jon
>  
>

Hi Jon,

About six months back my ISP was having major problems with their mail 
servers, and occasionally I had to wait many minutes to even get 
authenticated, using Mozilla Mail, but exiting that and using OS/2-eCS 
Telnet, I got connected instantly! :-)

Luckily the ISP hasn't blocked off telnet here! :-)
It was usually just one SPAM message that was causing the problem - 
usually hanging in the middle of reception of the message, with very 
high CPU usage. :-(

-- 
Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
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