I'm trying to write a a perl program to login to a pop3 server and do a RETR for my messages and return each individual message into a file. Example..Message 1 would go in the file message1, message 2 would go in the file message2,etc...What I have working so far is to authenticate, get the number of messages I have and that's it. I have no clue how to return the messages to me properly...here is my code.. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
use strict;

my $EOL = "\015\012";
my $BLANK = $EOL x 1;

my $username = "brice";
my $password = "mypassword";
my $count = 0;
my @mailstat;

my $remote = IO::Socket::INET->new(
             Proto    => "tcp",
             PeerAddr => "localhost",
             PeerPort => "pop3(110)",
             )
   or die "cannot connect to daytime port at localhost";

$remote->autoflush(1);

print $remote "USER $username" . $BLANK;
print $remote "PASS $password" . $BLANK;
print $remote "QUIT" . $BLANK;

while ( <$remote> ) {
  if (/lock busy/) {
    die "Session already in use!\n";
  }
  if (/OK $username has/) {
    @mailstat = split(/ /);
  }
}

if ($mailstat[3] eq "0") {
    print "You have no messages.\n";
  }

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The thing that I have figured out as a start to getting the messages would be... 
for ($count = $mailstat[3]; $count > 0; $count--) {
  print $remote "RETR $count" . $BLANK;
  #then do something with the data here. ????
}

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I would appriciate any help. Thanks to all the monks. Ben Rice

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