in reply to Best perl-based POP3 client library.

Hi Trizor,
I've only ever used Mail::POP3Client, and have no complaints about it. I found it particularly useful on a couple of occasions when I started receiving large amounts of spam containing rather large Windows viral attachments. I was getting (up to) about 100 of them every hour - damned things were arriving faster than my crappy dial-up connection could download them.

Anyway, it was nice to be able to run a Mail::POP3Client script that just connected to the server every 15 minutes or so, perused the headers and deleted each of the infected messages from the server, without me having to give it any more thought.

I've also used the same module to grab and print the headers and/or messages. I have no idea how it stacks up against the other POP3 client offerings - I've never experienced the need to look beyond it.

Cheers,
Rob
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by oakbox (Chaplain) on May 13, 2007 at 18:48 UTC
    I have to second Rob here, Mail::POP3Client is easy to use and fast. I was able to write an entire web-based mail reader around Mail::POP3Client in about 30 minutes.

    Writing the mail SENDING part took a little bit longer :) Since there are no public links to this program any more you can download it here:

    http://www.oakbox.com/scripts/oakmailer.shtml

    And see Mail::POP3Client in action.

    -Richard