I have a sample script to check and autorespond to email and I would like to modify it to work on a windows platform for a pop3 account. I am really not sure how to pull this off but would really like to get it working, I figure I will need to connect to the pop3 and then somehow switch to inbox then parse the messages, most of this logic should work but I am stuck on figuring out how to connect to the pop3 and also switching to the inbox.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5

use SMTPwrap;

my %mailheader;
my $mailbotaddress = "support\@mlxchange.com";

close(STDERR);
close(STDOUT);

my %commandlist = (
                   'send'  => 'send_file', 
                   'list'  => 'send_list', 
                   'help'  => 'send_help', 
                   );

chdir("/users/martinb/sub/mail");

my $state=1;

while(<STDIN>)
{
    chomp;
    if (length($_) eq 0)
    {
        $state=0;
        next;
    }
    if ($state)
    {
        if ( m/^From\s/)
        {
            next;
        }
        elsif ( m/(^[\w\-\.]+):\s*(.*\S)\s*$/)
        {
            $keyword = $1;
            $value = $2;
            $mailheader{$keyword} = $value;
        }
        else
        {
            $mailheader{$keyword} .= "\n" . $_;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        my ($command, @opts) = split;
        my $to = clean_address(return_address(\%mailheader));
        next if /^\s*$/;
        unless ($commandlist{lc($command)})
        {
            send_error($to,"Unknown command, $command.\n" .
                           "Rest of Message ignored.\n",1);
        }
        my $function = $commandlist{lc($command)};
        &$function($to,$opts[0]);
    }
}
sub send_error
{
    my ($to,$error,$fatal) = @_;
    mail_a_message("Mailbot Error",$to,$mailbotaddress,$error);
    exit(1) if $fatal;
}    

sub send_list
{
    my $to = shift;
    send_file($to,"list");
}

sub send_help
{
    my $to = shift;
    send_file($to,"help");
}

sub send_file
{
    my ($to,$filename) = @_;
    $filename =~ s#^.*/##;
    $filename =~ s/[^\w\.\-]//g;
    send_error($to,"Cannot open $filename",0)
        unless (open(D, "<$filename"));
    my $message  = "Attached below is the file $filename\n";
    $message .= "------------------------------------\n\n";

    $mailheader{subject} = "" unless $mailheader{subject};
    {
        local $/;
        $message .= <D>;
    }
    close(D);
    send_error($to,"Error: $SMTPwrap::error",0)
        unless(mail_a_message("Mailbot Reply to job, " . 
                              "$mailheader{subject}",
                              $to,$mailbotaddress,$message));
}
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