Brothers, I have read from the Cookbook Ex. 20.2 in my quest for Perl based website trickery and I am still con-fuse-ed.

Basically I am too cheap to pony up 25USD a year to get POP3 access to Mail.com. So my idea is to have a Perl script (I'm on OSX and they have no tool for OS X to do this like they do for Windows) log onto the website and read the page looking for "You Have New Mail" and if these words appear have the Perl Script send me an email telling me so. I would probably cron job it to do so three or four times a day.

Now Ex 20.2 talks about CGI form filling and I am under the impression that Mail.com is done with Javascript.

Does this change anything? And if so is there a module for this?
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In reply to Entering Username Password on a website by ellem

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