POP3 Commands

The commands below may differ slightly from your ISP's POP3 mail server.

• user <username> Inform the POP3 server of your username
• pass <password> Inform the POP3 server of your password
• stat Show summary of mailbox
• list Show the sizes of all emails
• list <msg id> Show size of an individual email
• uidl Show UID values of all messages
• uidl <msg id> Show UID value of the specified message
• retr <msg id> Download the specified message
• top <msg id> <len> Download the top lines of the specified message
• dele <msg id> Delete the specified message
• noop Do nothing!
• last Show the last message accessed
• rset Reset the POP3 Server
• help Show all commands
• quit Exit the server, deleting any messages marked for deletion
• debug Toggle debugging

Last updated: 03/01/2005