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Don't forget that POP3 sends your login and password in plain text...
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FYI...
by footpad (Abbot) on Jan 28, 2001 at 10:05 UTC
    cajun,

    If you're talking about Net::POP3, you can avoid sending the password in plaintext if you've got MD5 and call the apop() method. For details, see the POD.

    --f
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      No, I wasn't even speaking of Perl. I was speaking of POP in general.

      However I'll will check out the Net::POP3 module. Good to know ! Thank you.

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