Using ETRN to Retrieve Mail on a Dial-up Connection.

There are several cases where you or your customer may want to manually retrieve mail from another mail server:

To retrieve mail manually:

Use a Telnet program to connect to port 25 (the SMTP port) on the other mail server, and then issue the ETRN command for their domain. For example:

ETRN @domain2.com

Or

ETRN mail.domain2.com

The first command retrieves all queued mail for the domain. The second command retrieves all queued mail for the mail host.

Related Topics

Setting Up a Dial-Up Internet Connection