IMAP from Command line

Often I need to query IMAP server to test the mail server. For this I usually Telnet the IMAP serivce on server, and pass commands to check if it works fine or not.
Following are few commands that I need to test such servers.
To quickly test an imap server using telnet use:
telnet server 143
01 LOGIN username [...]

Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by Sumit Gupta
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Dell breaks my dream

Last week of January, my boss inform me about a new laptop, that he ordered for me. I start dreaming of having my laptop. Laptop is my dream from last few years, and it finally reach a stage where I am about to get it. It was Dell’s Inspiron 1720, with Pentium 4 Core 2 [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Sumit Gupta
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