How might telnet be used to access email from your isp?

Well, if you absolutely positively must use it, then you need to know your ISP supports POP3. You can then use this as a guide: a href="http://www.mchange.org/tutorials/Telnet-Exchange2003-POP3-SMTP-Troubleshooting.html" rel="nofollow"http://www.mchange.org/tutorials/Teln…/a