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- # Log into a host to read email
-
- # If you're not happy keeping your password in a file on your hard disk, then
- # delete all the lines between, but not including, "sendl "userid"" and
- # "sessionend". (In this case, you won't be able to start your mailreader
- # automatically.)
-
- # "host" is the name of the machine to log in to
- session telnet host
- # "ogin:" is the end of the prompt for the user id (normally "login:")
- waitfor "ogin:"
- # at the "login:" prompt, the user id is sent
- sendl "userid"
- # "assword:" is the end of the prompt for the password (usually "password:")
- waitfor "assword:"
- # send the password "xxxx"
- sendl "xxxx"
- # now wait for the command-line prompt (often ends in "$" or "%")
- waitfor "$"
- # send a command to start a mail reader e.g. "pine" or "elm"
- sendl "pine"
- sessionend
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