Here's my understanding.

- As stated previously $pop->last() returns the last message number that <bold>you<bold> previously accessed. If you haven't downloaded any messages yet, it will return 0. If you have downloaded messages from the current set and it still returns 0 then maybe your POP3 server is not configured correctly.
- in my use of $pop->top(), I needed to add the number of additional lines past the header to grab. This seemed to be more of a 'function' of my POP3 server. You can test this out by doing the commands manually.
Like this:
Telnet popserver 110
user username
pass password
top msg# --- this did not work for me
top msg# 0 --- this showed me the message headers for msg#

while you are there, try the list and last commands.
quit --- end your session

ok, now for my code that worked against yahoo's POP servers 

#!d:\perl\bin\perl -w
use Net::POP3;
use strict;
my $host = 'popserver';
my $mailbox = 'username';
my $password = 'password';
my ($item,$message,$line);
my $pop = Net::POP3->new($host) or die "$!\n";
$pop->login($mailbox,$password) or die "$!\n";
my $message_list = $pop->list;

foreach  $item (keys %$message_list) {
    my $message = $pop->top($item, 0);
        foreach $line (@$message){
            print "$item = $line";
        }
}

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Hope this helps.

In reply to Re: net::pop3 usage by dmistretta
in thread net::pop3 usage by LiTinOveWeedle

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