Jon Rust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 23 Oct 1999:
> The Net:POP3 login method expects to get a message count back after a
> successful login. Qmail's pop3d does not provide a message count, so
> it's impossible to tell if login succeeded (-> login() always returns
> as a "fail"). Is there a patch available to qmail's pop3d to return
> the number of messages after a successful login?
I haven't actually verified this in practice, but it looks like the
Net::POP3 module will return <undef> if the login (or pass) command
fails. If the login is successfull, it will return either 0 or the
number of messages, if that was given in the password reply.
So you don't need to look for patch to pop3d, instead in the perl
script you should be checking for a return value of <undef> instead
of non-zero to indicate login failure. Not doing this will give you
a "failed login" even on servers which do give the message count, but
the mailbox just happened to be empty.
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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