viewing user mailbox from Konsole

[Isalet]

I'd like to know how I can be able to view mails from the terminal on a remote host, so far i gather telnet to the remote host on port 110 and then user name, but how do you manipulate mails i.e deleting , viewing etc. please help..

[bigtomrodney]

Well I wouldn't bother with telnet at all. It's insecure and is far exceeded by ssh. I would recommend connecting via ssh (the service is already running by default, just open the firewall port). Once connected you can run the mail command to interact with the mailbox - check out the manpage for specific commands.