Copyright (c) 2003 Alex Pleiner - zeitform Internet Dienste. alex@zeitform.de - http://www.zeitform.de. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Note: This version requires Authen::SASL. If you want to want to go without, use version Net::POP3_auth 0.02.

Can someone please provide me with a SMTP account on a maschine using DIGEST-MD5 or NTLM for testing?


Abstract

Net::POP3_auth is a small extension to G. Barr's Net::POP3 to authenticate to an POP3 server using one of the AUTH methods APOP and SASL (Authen::SASL). This module can be expanded and is a very first implementation.


Requirements

This module requires:

The requirements are encoded in Makefile.PL.


Basic Installation

Net::POP3_auth may be installed through the CPAN shell in the usual CPAN shell manner. This typically is:

$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::POP3_auth'

You can also read this README from the CPAN shell:

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> readme Net::POP3_auth

And you can install the component from the CPAN prompt as well:

cpan> install Net::POP3_auth


Manual Installation

Net::POP3_auth can also be installed manually.

Download the package from:
http://alex.zeitform.de/smtp_auth/

Downloading and unpacking the distribution are left as exercises for the reader. To build and test it:

perl Makefile.PL
make test

When you're ready to install the component:

make install

It should now be ready to use.