[LI] vsnl mail problem

["L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wanted to connect to vsnl mail server. I made a script as follows.
telnet 202.54.6.35 110
    USER lvgandhi
    PASS *******
ans saved it as seefirstmail and made it executable. I executed it.
result is give below.
[lvgandhi@lvghomepc] ~$ seefirstmail
Trying 202.54.6.35...
Connected to 202.54.6.35.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 2.53) at md3.vsnl.net.in starting.  
list
-ERR Unknown command: "list".
LIST
-ERR Unknown command: "list".
top 1 10
-ERR Unknown command: "top".
ls
-ERR Unknown command: "ls".
quit
+OK Pop server at md3.vsnl.net.in signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
/home/lvgandhi/bin/seefirstmail: USER: command not found
/home/lvgandhi/bin/seefirstmail: PASS: command not found
[lvgandhi@lvghomepc] ~$ 
I want to get there and delete the first mail. Many a time mail
downloading hangs. Most probably the HDD of vsnl server is having bad
sectors. If I delete the first mail then I could download the mail
further. Hence to access the first mail i tried as above. How to go
about it?
-- 
L.V.Gandhi
MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA
http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi  lvgandhi@xxxxxxxxxxx, 
lvgandhi@xxxxxxxx,  31882656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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