OT: accessing old emails from UKLinux

Jan 07, 2018 6 Replies

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Andrew 8 years ago

In the dark days of 56K modems and tenner-a-month accounts I had an account with UK Linux.org and out of interest I just tried to login but I don't think it exists any longer.

I then tried $telnet uklinux.net 110 and it still takes my login and password and there are

415 messages !.

The most recent is an invitation to invest in blockchain so god knows how my old email is doing the rounds.

I can read them in text form using LIST and TOP N 10 but is there a way of downloading or automatically forwarding them into Thunderbird ?.

Andrew

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Information here may be outdated?

Andy Burns 8 years ago

415 messages over mumble years? Why bother, I bet you 414 are spam and 1 is a welcome to uklinux.org message ...

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Andrew 8 years ago

I expect so.

I also had an email address on beeb.net, but I think that was canned in 2008.

There must be an awful lot of 56K modem boards in landfill sites around the world now (or had their gold connectors sheared off and the rest incinerated).

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Graham. 8 years ago

On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 14:28:24 +0000, Andrew coalesced the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension...

If you can Telnet into the server on port 110 and perform a POP3 interaction manualy, why can't Thunderbird do it?

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John Rumm 8 years ago

Since you just telnetted into the pop3 server (i.e. port 110), that suggests you can simply go to thunderbirds accounts page, create a new POP3 mail account, and give it the username/password you just tried. Use uklinux.net at the server / hostname. Select one of your existing SMTP servers for outgoing, and off you go. That will then suck the lot in, and you can copy them to another folder if you want.

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