Hi, You don't need to use eval in this case. First of all you may want check whether new() returns something you can use and then you safely can call login. This small script will hopefully show you one possible direction: 
use Net::POP3;
my $pop = Net::POP3->new("pluto.runbox.com");
if ($pop) {
  my $msg = $pop->login("test21","test");
  if ($msg) {
    $msg eq '0E0' and $msg = 0;
    print $msg." messages\n";
  } else { print "Couldn't read...\n" }
  $pop->quit();
} else { print "Couldn't connect...\n" }

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-- slurp

In reply to Re: Login Error by slurp
in thread Login Error by elusion

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