Net::POP3

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- EXAMPLES
- CONSTRUCTOR
- METHODS
- NOTES
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT

# NAME

Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081)

# SYNOPSIS

        use Net::POP3;

        # Constructors
        $pop = Net::POP3->new('pop3host');
        $pop = Net::POP3->new('pop3host', Timeout => 60);

# DESCRIPTION

This module implements a client interface to the POP3 protocol, enabling a perl5 application to talk to POP3 servers. This documentation assumes that you are familiar with the POP3 protocol described in RFC1081.

A new Net::POP3 object must be created with the new method. Once this has been done, all POP3 commands are accessed via method calls on the object.

# EXAMPLES

        Need some small examples in here :-)

# CONSTRUCTOR

new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
  This is the constructor for a new Net::POP3 object. `HOST` is the name of the remote host to which a POP3 connection is required.

  If `HOST` is not given, then the `POP3_Host` specified in `Net::Config` will be used.

  `OPTIONS` are passed in a hash like fashion, using key and value pairs. Possible options are:

  ResvPort - If given then the socket for the `Net::POP3` object will be bound to the local port given using `bind` when the socket is created.

  Timeout - Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a response from the POP3 server (default: 120)

  Debug - Enable debugging information

# METHODS

Unless otherwise stated all methods return either a true or false value, with true meaning that the operation was a success. When a method states that it returns a value, failure will be returned as undef or an empty list.

user ( USER )
  Send the USER command.

pass ( PASS )
  Send the PASS command. Returns the number of messages in the mailbox.

login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] )
  Send both the the USER and PASS commands. If `PASS` is not given the `Net::POP3` uses `Net::Netrc` to lookup the password using the host and username. If the username is not specified then the current user name will be used.

  Returns the number of messages in the mailbox.

  If the server cannot authenticate `USER` the undef will be returned.

apop ( USER, PASS )
  Authenticate with the server identifying as `USER` with password `PASS`. Similar ti login, but the password is not sent in clear text.

  To use this method you must have the MD5 package installed, if you do not this method will return undef

top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] )
  Get the header and the first `NUMLINES` of the body for the message `MSGNUM`. Returns a reference to an array which contains the lines of text read from the server.

list ( [ MSGNUM ] )
  If called with an argument the `list` returns the size of the message in octets.

  If called without arguments a reference to a hash is returned. The keys will be the `MSGNUM`'s of all undeleted messages and the values will be their size in octets.

get ( MSGNUM )
  Get the message `MSGNUM` from the remote mailbox. Returns a reference to an array which contains the lines of text read from the server.

last ()
  Returns the highest `MSGNUM` of all the messages accessed.

popstat ()
  Returns an array of two elements. These are the number of undeleted elements and the size of the mbox in octets.

uidl ( [ MSGNUM ] )
  Returns a unique identifier for `MSGNUM` if given. If `MSGNUM` is not given `uidl` returns a reference to a hash where the keys are the message numbers and the values are the unique identifiers.

delete ( MSGNUM )
  Mark message `MSGNUM` to be deleted from the remote mailbox. All messages that are marked to be deleted will be removed from the remote mailbox when the server connection closed.

reset ()
  Reset the status of the remote POP3 server. This includes reseting the status of all messages to not be deleted.

quit ()
  Quit and close the connection to the remote POP3 server. Any messages marked as deleted will be deleted from the remote mailbox.

# NOTES

If a `Net::POP3` object goes out of scope before `quit` method is called then the `reset` method will called before the connection is closed. This means that any messages marked to be deleted will not be.

# SEE ALSO

the Net::Netrc manpage the Net::Cmd manpage

# AUTHOR

Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-1997 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.