Hey gang,

I've got my site on a virtual dedicated server. My provider's "support" isn't that hot unless I pay $150/hr labor, so that's out. My basic problem is that the web server is experiencing bottlenecks. They say it's memory (I'm only guaranteed 256MB). So, before I just throw money at the problem and go fully dedicated (which I will likely have to do) I would like to make it as lean as possible

I have a script that uses Net::POP3 that logs into the pop server, downloads the list, checks the uidl's against a list of previously read uidls (stored in a DB) and if it's not in there, it parses it. Basic idea is: 
my $pop = Net::POP3->new( $server, Debug => 0  ) || die $!;
if ( $pop->login( $u_name, $p_word ) > 0 ) {
   my $msgnums = $pop->list() || die $!;
   foreach my $msgnum ( sort keys %$msgnums ) {
      my $uidl = $pop->uidl( $msgnum );
      ## Check if message was previously read
      ## If not, read, parse, and move on
   }
}

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As I have a few hundred messages on the server at any time, this seems to be a pretty massive waste of resources (it runs several times an hour). Is there any way w/ Net::POP3 to keep it open, and just have it listen like a socket so I can just let the script run like a daemon?

I see the last() function, but that doesn't seem to guarantee I'll get every message.

In reply to pop3 issue by GaijinPunch

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