Revision history for Perl extension Mail::POP3Client. This is version 2.6 of Mail::POP3Client. 2.6 2000/02/15 + some servers were not sending any message after the +OK for DELE and RSET. Changed regexps to account for this. 2.5 1999/12/19 + Added ListArray to return an indexed array of results of the List command. Indexes are the server's message numbers, beginning at 1. Additional info supplied by the server beyond message size may be lost. The RFC discourages servers from sending this info. + yet another EOF fix (this one for Head(msgnum,linecount)) where the read would end prematurely if the message had a line with a period at the beginning of a line (would return less than the number of lines requested). 2.4 1999/11/20 + fixed problem created by previous fix. Lines that had only a . on them were treated as the end of message (since the test was after stripping the . added by the POP3 server). Thanks to Christophe Wolfhugel @ oleane.net. 2.3 1999/10/11 + fixed problem where lines beginning with '.' in a mail message were not having the extra '.' removed. The POP3 server adds this '.' to escape the original '.' so that it is not interpreted as the end of message marker. Pointed out by Jim Osborne @ Wingra.com. 2.2 1999/10/10 + fixed problem with MacPerl and lingering CR/LF chars on the socket. 2.1 1999/08/19 + moved all socket IO to 2 methods to allow debug to print all socket IO. (mitra@earth.path.net) + fixed some places where you could get an empty string returned as an error when calling from an array context. Now returns nothing (false for both array and scalar context). + defaults to APOP (digest) as authentication mode. Will switch to PASS (cleartext) if server does not claim to support APOP. This will mean less passwords sent in cleartext. + fixed example in the Synopsis section (missing argument to Head). + added a simple documentation line for Uidl 2.00 1999/04/29 - major rebuild, including: + changed to hash-style constructor. See the inline doco. This will be the only supported constructor in later versions. + changed underlying socket code to use IO::Socket. Timeout settings on the socket are now supported so you can make sure that POP accesses do not hang. + added tests (use POPTESTACCOUNT environment variable to use: '% POPTESTACCOUNT=userid:password:host make test') + module passes strict + you can construct a Mail::POP3Client object which does not auto-connect (by not passing in a USER and PASSWORD) and then connect manually 1.23 1999/04/16 + fixed bug in Head when optional number of lines is not passed, set to zero if undefined or non-numeric (submitted by Bjoern Kriews <bkr@cut.de>) 1.22 1999/04/15 + change Retrieve to return HeadAndBody. It was using too much memory by building both an array and a string to return. 1.21 1999/04/08 + add SYNOPSIS info for perldoc. + add support for previewing messages using second integer argument to Head, as in $pop->Head( 0, 10 ), which would get the headers and the first 10 lines of the body for message 0. Contributed by Dennis Moroney <dennis@hub.iwl.net> + convert prints to carps. + change local to my. 1.19 198/12/04 + added basic APOP support patches from Gerhard Gonter <gonter@falbala.wu-wien.ac.at>. Login does not currently auto-detect APOP on the server. 1.18 1998/12/04 + fixed typo in Body ($$line = ...) + remove set of $\ + once again, fix the distribution (this time I built it on a Unix box. Thanks to Terry Sigle.) 1.17 1998/11 + fixed newline/carriage return problem in distribution. 1.16 1998/09 + replaced all occurences of chop with chomp. Should make it more compatible on machines like the Mac. + Removed all uses of $_ =. Uses locally declared variables now. + Now compiles with no warnings.