{"id":92,"date":"2010-11-02T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/reading-an-email-using-gmail-pop3-server-from-telnet-using-stunnel-in-windows\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T00:54:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:54:17","slug":"reading-email-using-gmail-pop3-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/reading-email-using-gmail-pop3-server.html","title":{"rendered":"Reading an email using gmail pop3 server from telnet (using stunnel) in windows."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last time, I showed how to send an email using a gmail account and gmail’s smtp server,<\/p>\n

Now it’s time to login to our inbox and read the email using gmail’s pop3 server and stunnel.<\/p>\n

First let’s configure stunnel, I will listen on port 2302, and gmail’s pop3 server is pop.gmail.com port: 995<\/p>\n

so in stunnel.conf we write the following:
\n[pop3s]<\/span>
\naccept\u00a0 = 2302<\/span>
\nconnect = pop.gmail.com:995<\/span><\/p>\n

for more info about configuring stunnel, please refer to my other post Sending an email using gmail smtp server from telnet (using stunnel) in windows<\/a>,<\/p>\n

After starting or reloading stunnel, let’s start the command line cmd:<\/p>\n

in cmd, write the following:
\ntelnet localhost 2302<\/b><\/p>\n

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+OK Gpop ready for requests from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx<\/i> eq6pf732841wbb.2<\/div>\n

USER etienne.rached@gmail.com<\/span>
\n+OK send PASS<\/span>
\nPASS <\/span>YourPassword<\/i>
\n+OK Welcome.<\/span>
\nSTAT<\/span><\/span>
\n+OK 107 2614891<\/span>
\nLIST<\/span>
\n+OK 107 messages (2614891 bytes)<\/span><\/p>\n

1 2989
\n2 3352
\n3 3029
\n4 3240
\n5 844<\/div>\n
.<\/div>\n
.<\/div>\n
.<\/div>\n

103 13741<\/span>
\n104 31400<\/span>
\n105 170674<\/span>
\n106 123019<\/span>
\n107 13170<\/span>
\nRETR 91<\/span>
\nContent of the message will be displayed here<\/span>
\nQUIT<\/span>
\nConnection to host lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

USER<\/b> the gmail address… (can be without @gmail.com)
\nPASS<\/b> the password
\nSTAT <\/b>will list the number of messages you have and its size in bytes.
\nLIST<\/b> will show the list of all the messages, their number and their size.
\nRETR “#Number”<\/b> will retrieve the message number.
\nQUIT<\/b> will disconnect you from the server.<\/p>\n

You can also use DELE<\/b>\u00a0 “#Number”<\/b> to delete a message, and RSET<\/b> <\/b>to restore all the message that was deleted, but make sure you use RSET<\/b> before using QUIT<\/b>, or the messages can’t be restored later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last time, I showed how to send an email using a gmail account and gmail’s smtp server, Now it’s time to login to our inbox and read the email using gmail’s pop3 server and stunnel. First let’s configure stunnel, I will listen on port 2302, and gmail’s pop3 server is pop.gmail.com port: 995 so in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,130,129,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-gmail","category-pop3","category-stunnel","category-telnet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}