Telnet - IMAP Commands (fetching mail using telnet)

In order to access your mailbox you will need 3 things:

An active internet connection
The address of your imap-capable mail server (e.g. mail.domain.ext)
Your username and password

The first thing to do is to open a connection from your computer to your mail server.
telnet mail.domain.ext imap
You should receive a reply like:
* OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2002 Double Precision, Inc.

Then log in:
A login me@mydomain.com mypassword
This should give you:
A OK LOGIN Ok.

Select the folder you want to look in (usually the inbos):
B select INBOX
This should give you some information about the contents of that mail folder:


			* FLAGS (\Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Recent)

			* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen)] Limited

			* 0 EXISTS

			* 0 RECENT

			* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1021381622] Ok

			B OK [READ-WRITE] Ok

When you have finished here's how you quit:
C logout
This should give you:


			* BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down

			C OK LOGOUT completed