----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Should I use Perl?
> Raymond Lam wrote:
> >
> > hi there, i've just started reading the book Learning Perl and
> > I'm amazed what perl can do.
> >
> > Currently, I'm trying to find out a way to automatically save
> > email messages (from MS Exchange / Pop3) to text files in a
> > directory.
> >
> > I am planning to write something in VB but would like to try
> > perl. Could someone please tell me whether this can be done in
> > perl so I don't waste time following a dead end.
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> use Net::POP3;
>
> my $user_name = 'yourname';
> my $user_pw = 'yourpassword';
> my $pop_host = 'pop.somehost.com';
> my $mail_file = '/home/yourname/mail';
>
> my $pop = Net::POP3->new( $pop_host ) or die "Cannot connect to
$pop_host\n";
> open my $mail, '>>', $mail_file or die "Cannot open $mail_file: $!";
>
> $pop->login( $user_name, $user_pw ) == 0 and die "No messages at
$pop_host\n";
> $pop->get( $_, $mail ) for keys %{$pop->list()};
>
> __END__
>
>
>
> John
> --
A quick question here.
Do you place the actual username and password in the script,
or does it prompt you for them when run?
As an example, I have an account with username of wayneleake, password of
xxxxxxxx,
at mail.mynetname.net (or pop.mynetname.net).
I have not tried running any of this code just yet.
Still getting other things set up, and running web server plus Telnet BBS
only, at this time.
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