Wise monks, please help this lowly Perl hacker with an annoying problem. I am working on a email script and ran into problems. I have hacked together the following script to test if I can access a pop3 server. When run locally on my M$ XP box under cygwin it works fine, when I upload it to my hosted webserver it fails and it is beyond me as to why. The error I get is: Can't call method "login" on an undefined value at /home/xxx/xxx/TestPopMail.pl line 22. Any suggestions, the small script is listed below. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Test Page</title></head><body>";

$| = 1;

use warnings;
use strict;
eval( "use Net::POP3;" );
die "Module Configuration Error: $@" if $@;

my $time = scalar localtime;
my $pop3 = "xxx.xxx.xxx";
my $login = "xxx\@xxx.xxx";
my $pass = "xxxxxxxx";

my $pop = Net::POP3->new($pop3);
#my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($ssmtp);

$res = $pop->login($login, $pass);
if ($res eq "undef"){
print "Couldn't connect $!\n";
} else {
print "On $time e-mail status inbox: $res post \n";
}


my $i =0;

print("Deleting $res mails ...\n");
for($i = 0; $i<$res; $i++) {
 # $pop->delete($i);
 }

$pop->quit();



print "</html></body>";

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_update/idea_ Looking at this I am wondering if I am not getting a connection to the pop3 server, and that in turn is causing the error in the login call?

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In reply to Can't call method... works locally, but not on webserver. by lwicks

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