By debug switch do you mean the optional debug_flag ? No I haven't but about to.
No idea what AUTH_MODE means, and my two oreilly perl books don't tell me either but I'll try and Google for it.
Thanks, have moved on a little!
Jim
Did you turn on the DEBUG switch? There is a section in the docs that state that it will give an indication of errors. I copied your script, turned it on, saw that the connection was successful by login was not. I then attempted switching the AUTH_MODE for my connection to PASS (yes I know what this means, do you? If not, learn before doing so.) and everything then worked.
It runs, but I get "You have -1 messages"
The docs state that currently the only way to check for successful connection is to ask for the number of messages, with -1 indicating connection failure. I suspect 0 is success but empty, and >1 meaning success and with messages.
Granted this is fairly annoying and I would think getting that switched is high on their list.
I suspect the -1 means the variable has not been initialized or for some reason it will not connect to the server.
-1 is initialization of the variable, just not a connection.
TIA
Jim
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