Actually, I think that the original poster is on the right track. I'm guessing that he wants to connect to a POP3S server (probably pop3 being wrapped via stunnel).

Looking over the docs, I think that the original poster's idea of using IO::Socket::SSL should work. Haven't ever used it before, so unfortunately, I don't have any code snippets that could be useful.

Also, looking at CPAN, Net::SSLeay may also do the trick....

--Jerry A!