i have a RaQ4r. the WScript.KakWorm was in one of the emails waiting on my server. everytime i try to download the mail from that account from Outlook 2000 the server times out. Norton intersepts and quarentines it but everytime i try to download form that account it happens all over again. i do not have 'save a copy of mail on the server' activated either. does anyone know how to go in through telnet to find this email to delete it on the server?

goto /var/spool/mail/

you should see the mail account in there,

pico mail account

remove the e-mail by deleting it.

Or.. you should be able to just delete the spool .. and then go:

touch nameofspool

that will recreate a blank spool.

hmm...or since it is a pop account, you could access it from of the free pop email services and delete the email?

i did the 'pico' filename comman and i can see the email with the virus. now how do i delete it? what is the delete command? what do i type after the delete command (where do i find the name of the email i want to delete)?

how can i find and delete an incoming email message from 'pine'?

Go to your spool folder just delete out the file with "rm filename"

You can also telnet in on port 110 and delete it that way:

telnet mail.yourdomain.com 110

when you connect:

user username
pass password

to get a list of all messages type:

list

to look at a message type:

retr message# (ie 1, 2, 10, etc)

to delete a message type:

del message#

then to quit type:

quit


allan