It would appear that this line:

$pop3 = Net::POP3->new('$host');
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is failing. I would suspect the '$host' part. You are passing to new() a string containing $host, not the value of $host. Since $host is not specifically defined in your login() subroutine, it must be a global to have any value there.

I have not used POP3, but I suspect that $host is not what it expects. Try removing the single-quotes (which do not interpolate the value of any variables in them), or (yuck!) replacing them with double-quotes and see if it works correctly.

Russ
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