On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, David Laight wrote:

> $ telnet mail.xyz.com pop3
> ...
> user username
> ...
> pass password
> ...
> list
> ...
> top <mail item number> <number of lines>
> ...

And to retrieve the entire single message:

 retr <mail item number>


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