Authen::Simple::POP3 - Simple POP3 authentication

    use Authen::Simple::POP3;

    my $pop3 = Authen::Simple::POP3->new( 
        host => 'pop3.company.com'
    );

    if ( $pop3->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }

    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::POP3

    PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePOP3_host "pop3.company.com"

    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::POP3
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

Authenticate against a POP3 service.

* new

This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

* host

Connection host, can be a hostname or IP number. Defaults to localhost.

    host => 'ftp.company.com'
    host => '10.0.0.1'

* port

Connection port, defaults to 110.

    port => 110

* timeout

Connection timeout, defaults to 60.

    timeout => 60

* method

Authentication method, defaults to plain. Valid options are apop, plain, sasl.

    method => 'plain'

* log

Any object that supports debug, info, error and warn.

    log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::POP3')

* authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

Authen::Simple.

Net::POP3.

Christian Hansen ch@ngmedia.com

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.