I'm trying to call the Net::POP3 login method from a subroutine. For some reason it returns an undef on me. I know that's an error, but I can't figure out where to go from there. I thought it was going out of scope, so I tried the reset function, but this didn't work. I also tried doing it manually, as you'll see in the code below. It still won't work. What am I doing wrong? 
my $pop3 = Net::POP3->new('$host');
###############################
PROMPT: while ($var == 2) {
    print '#! ';
    $current_input = <STDIN>;
    if($current_input =~ /^login/) {
        &login;
    }
}
###############################
sub login() {
    print "logging in...\n";
    $pop3 = Net::POP3->new('$host');
    LOGIN: if ($numb = $pop3->login("$username", "$password")) { #line
+ 25
        system("cls");
        print "logged in...\n";
        print "you have $numb messages...\n";
    } else {
        print $numb;
        print "couldn't login, try again?[y/n] ";
        my $answer = <STDIN>;
        if ($answer =~ /y/i) {
            goto LOGIN;
        }
    }
    goto PROMPT;
}

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The exact error I get when running the script is  Can't call method "login" on an undefined value at mail.pl line 25, <STDIN> line 1. What's happening? P.S. I'm running Windows 98 IndigoPerl. Thanx for your help,

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