Read Email Using Telnet

Open your command prompt.
At the command prompt, type in
telnet example.com 110
Type user and the email address (username@example.com) of the user for which you wish to view emails:
user username@example.com
Then type in pass followed by your password:
pass yourpasswordgoeshere
Type list to bring up a list of your emails:
list
You will see a list of items with labels like "1 897" and "2 5136." Here is an example:
list
+OK POP3 clients that break here, they violate STD53.
1 897
2 5136
3 1884
4 2973
5 2595
6 3063
7 3509
8 2283
9 1926
10 2763
11 1795
12 2780
13 2342
14 2342
15 2342
16 3833
17 2211
18 793
19 797
20 2599
.
If you wish to read an email message such as 2 5136, you can type the following:
retr 2 
If you want to delete a message such as 1 897, type dele 1:
dele 1
When you are done checking your email, type quit.