I'm writing a POP3 client in Perl using Mail::POP3Client (mostly to better learn Perl programming) but I am running into a wierd problem. So that long messages don't scroll off the screen, I am printing the messages to more. However, if at any time you hit q to quit more, I get Broken pipe and dumped back to the command line. This however does not happen on another Linux box and a Solaris box that I have access to (the Linux box is almost identical in its software install). A working (or not working) example of the code is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Mail::POP3Client;
use strict;
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( USER            => "(user name omitted)",
                                PASSWORD        => "(password omitted)",
                                HOST            => "localhost",
                                AUTH_MODE       => "PASS" );
my $body = $pop->Body(1);
open (MORE,"|more");
print MORE $body;
close (MORE);
$pop->Close();

I'm stumped, as it was working fine then just... stopped... I can also print the contents of a file piped through more using Perl code and quit it with q just fine. Any help?

In reply to Broken Pipe woes by xjar

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