Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Maas
Hi Wiggins, It works! Thanks a bunch. I'm no computer newbie but am new to Perl, and where does one get started? It was the AUTH_MODE, which had to be set to 'PASS'. The machine it is connecting to is a Sun running Linux, but I don't know the flavour or what mailer. This is just a demo/pro

Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;

2004-10-01 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post > > Thanks for this. I'm not completely new but haven't found any sort of > comprehensive docs, only cryptic ones. Where might I find it? > Documentation for modules available on CPAN are always available online in a quite readable format, for example, http://search.c

Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Maas
Thanks for this. I'm not completely new but haven't found any sort of comprehensive docs, only cryptic ones. Where might I find it? By debug switch do you mean the optional debug_flag ? No I haven't but about to. No idea what AUTH_MODE means, and my two oreilly perl books don't tell me eith

Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;

2004-10-01 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I'm sure you've seen this one hundreds of times! > Uh, nope. Which is really nice. > I copied the following script, downloaded and installed the POP3Client > module but it doesn't want to connect to an external POP3 server for me, > for some reason. I have put in the correct pop3 server, u

newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Maas
I'm sure you've seen this one hundreds of times! I copied the following script, downloaded and installed the POP3Client module but it doesn't want to connect to an external POP3 server for me, for some reason. I have put in the correct pop3 server, username and password, at least the same ones