How to delete mulitple email using Telnet

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"Steve" <stevencoates@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>I am able to use Telnet to get into my ISP server and delete individual
>emails (such as stuck emails).
>
> I can do individual ones using the dele command such as dele 2 to
> delete email 2.
>
> Have been unable to delete more than one at at time.
>
> I have tried dele all, dele 1-100 and dele * but cannot seem to get
> the command right, to delete them all in one go,
>
> Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated,


ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1939.txt
DELE command is on page 8.
Takes one argument which is the relative index number of a message.

Telnet obviously is not a POP3 client. If you used a POP3 client, it
might have the feature where you can select multiple messages and have
it issue the multiple DELE commands for you.

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In news 4isu2$3r6$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com,
Steve <stevencoates@btinternet.com> did some thinking and came up with these
words:
> I am able to use Telnet to get into my ISP server and delete
> individual emails (such as stuck emails).
>
> I can do individual ones using the dele command such as dele 2 to
> delete email 2.
>
> Have been unable to delete more than one at at time.
>
> I have tried dele all, dele 1-100 and dele * but cannot seem to get
> the command right, to delete them all in one go,
>
> Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Steve

Unless you are stuck on using telnet, you can use http://www.mail2web.com/
and have a GUI interface to work with.

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