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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

new

Synopsis

$pop = Net::POP3->new([host,] [options])

Constructor. Creates a new Net::POP3 object. host is the name of the remote host to which a POP3 connection will be made. If host is not specified, then the POP3_Host specified in Net::Config is used.

options are passed as key/value pairs, in which the option is the key. The possible options are:

ResvPort

Optional. If given, then the socket for the Net::POP3 object will be bound to the given local port using bind when the socket is created.

Debug

Enables debugging information

Timeout

Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a response from the POP3 server. Default is 120 seconds.

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