This is a POP3Client module for perl5. It provides an object-oriented interface to a POP3 server. It can be used to write perl-based biff clients, mail readers, or whatever. See the inline POD doco for more details. To install Mail::POP3Client: % perl Makefile.PL % make install Written by Sean Dowd . This is version 1.21 of Mail::POP3Client. Changes from version 1.23 to 1.23: + fixed bug in Head when optional number of lines is not passed, set to zero if undefined or non-numeric (submitted by Bjoern Kriews ) Changes from version 1.21 to 1.22: + change Retrieve to return HeadAndBody. It was using too much memory by building both an array and a string to return. Changes from version 1.19 to 1.21: + add SYNOPSIS info for perldoc. + add support for previewing messages using second integer argument to Head, as in $pop->Head( 0, 10 ), which would get the headers and the first 10 lines of the body for message 0. Contributed by Dennis Moroney + convert prints to carps. + change local to my. Changes from version 1.18 to 1.19: + added basic APOP support patches from Gerhard Gonter . Login does not currently auto-detect APOP on the server. Changes from version 1.17 to 1.18: + fixed typo in Body ($$line = ...) + remove set of $\ + once again, fix the distribution (this time I built it on a Unix box. Thanks to Terry Sigle.) Changes from version 1.16 to 1.17: + fixed newline/carriage return problem in distribution. Changes from version 1.15 to 1.16: + replaced all occurences of chop with chomp. Should make it more compatible on machines like the Mac. + Removed all uses of $_ =. Uses locally declared variables now. + Now compiles with no warnings.