Getting New Email Message counts

terencepjf · Post by **terencepjf** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:01 pm

Hi; does anyone know a way to get a count of New Email messages:

1) Without downloading all the messages
2) Count of messages in Inbox Sub-Folders

RetrievePOP3 works but the files need to be downloaded and no subfolders messages can be retrieved.

Thanks in advance

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:56 pm

Use the Telnet commands. POP3 is just telnet. Telnet to port 110 and issue the LIST command to get the number of messages waiting.

http://jameser.blogspot.com/2006/06/tip ... elnet.html

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:42 pm

Easier is to use the STAT command. I have blogged a solution here:

http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2008/12/18/t ... age-count/

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:13 pm

Thank you for this blogged example... very helpful (3.5 years after posting).

I want to make one point to save the next person a little time.

Do the command prompt telnet session sample from the blog first. Your telnet session might not provide the same response as Marcus' telnet session. The TelnetWaitFor> function is waiting for specific text. If your telnet session displays different text, your logon attempt will fail.