Burris, Celeste Suliin wrote: > I agree with other suggestion. Unfortunately, not all firewalls/proxy > server are Mac (or anything not MS) friendly. I sit in a Windoze shop, and > the only way I can get it to work is to download the tar.gz file, > untar/ungzip (the famous tar zxvf command) and run make perl.
fwiw, I am in a Windoze workplace behind a firewall, but have never had a problem with ActiveState's PPM, which, of course, has nothing to do with MacOS X ;-). Maybe my workplace firewall is more porous or lenient (depending on the viewpoint). The only problem with download->tar -xvzf->make etc. is that it will not take care of any dependencies there might be... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Barris > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 9/19/2002 7:28 PM > Subject: need a hand > > I would like to install this CPAN module on my stock OSX 10.2 system: > > http://search.cpan.org/author/JPAF/Net-IMAP-Simple-0.93/Simple.pm > > so I can write a Perl script to poll an IMAP mail account for incoming > messages periodically (and possibly send out some responses). > > How do I get started? > > Rob
