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Exchange has made access to email more accessible than any other mail server I know. Out of all these methods, POP3 would have to be the quickest, although you loose many of the features of Exchange.

 

Client setup procedures for this protocol are relatively simple and straight forward, however, if you have ever needed to troubleshoot you may want to bypass the client program to determine if it is the issue or not.

 

Open a Telnet session from the run line to the clients IMC on port 110 by typing the following command –

telnet 203.xxx.xxx.xxx 110

 

Your Telnet session should open, and you should see a response from the clients server like this –

Open a Telnet session from the run line to the clients IMC on port 25 by typing the following command –

telnet 203.xxx.xxx.xxx 25

 

Your Telnet session should open, and you should see a response from the clients server like this –

Open a Telnet session from the run line to the clients IMC on port 25 by typing the following command –

telnet 203.xxx.xxx.xxx 25

 

Your Telnet session should open, and you should see a response from the clients server like this –

+OK Microsoft Exchange POP3 server version 5.5.2650.23 ready

 

Now we are ready to check our email account. First of all we need to log in.

 

To log in type the following command –

USER cjanssen

 

You have the option of specifying your NT DOMAIN name, and a different NT Account name and Exchange Mailbox name. To do this you would have entered the following command - 

                                                USER NTDOMAIN/NT Account/Exchange Mailbox

 

You should see a response like this –

+OK

 

Now you need to enter your NT Account Password. Type the following command –

PASS password

 

You should see a response like this –

+OK User successfully logged on

 

Now you can see if you have any email. Type the following command –

LIST

 

You should see a response like this –

1     22096
2     1764
3     1838
4     37225

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Obviously if you had more email, you would have more messages. All messages are assigned a message number. As you can see above we have 4 messages which are numbered sequentially.

 

Now we are ready to read any of these emails, however, if you try to read a large email (especially with an attachment), it will scroll past so fast you won't be able to read it. A good idea, is to turn on logging, retrieve the email, and then read it from the log file.

 

To retrieve message number 2, type the following command - 

                                                RETR 2

 

You should see a response like this –

+OK

Received: by server.outlookexchange.com

id <01BC2F60.EA72A8C0@server.outlookexchange.com>; Tue, 18 May 1998 12:34:45 -0000

Message-ID:<2404618-postmaster@server.outlookexchange.com>

From: Support<support@microsoft.com>

To: cjanssen <cjanssen@outlookexchange.com>

Subject: Update

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1998 03:44:55 -0000

X-Priority: 3

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain

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You can also delete messages if you want to. Select the message number of the message you want to delete and type the following command –

DELE 5

 

You should see a response like this –

+OK

You can now close the connection. Type in the following command –

QUIT