Revision history for Perl extension Mail::POP3Client. This is version 2.16 of Mail::POP3Client. 2.16 2004/03/13 + Correct documentation errors for Connect(). + Fix problem with servers not returning an empty line after headers when message body is blank. 2.15 2003/10/17 + Create a method to set AuthMode (Jamie Le Tual) + Force Mime::Base64::encode base64 result into a single line (Jamie Le Tual) + Documenation updates 2.14 2003/03/22 + Fixed problem when using SSL connection with SSL socket passed in via Socket(); + Added Mail::IMAPClient compatibility calls + Fixed issue with ListArray when POP3 server uses a tab as separator 2.13 2003/01/09 + Added XTND command - submitted by Chris Moates + Added documentation to POD regarding return value of new. + Allow Socket to set the socket (for use with SSL) -submitted by Jamie LeTual . 2.12 2002/09/21 + changed calls to _sockread to check for undef on return value. + removed unused call to inet_aton (support perl 5.8.0) 2.11 2002/06/17 + CRAM-MD5 Authentication support (Ville Skytta) + CAPA support (Ville Skytta) + fixed perldoc regarding return value of Connect() 2.10 2001/09/08 + Corrected problem where login was not attempted if password was empty string. 2.9 2001/08/18 + Fixed bad value for VERSION. 2.8 2001/08/15 + add patch for setting LOCALADDR for multi-address machines. + add transaction log (reference request/response chain array as @{$pop->{tranlog}}) + remove AutoLoader from @ISA + changed HeadAndBodyToFile to return 1 on success and 0 on failure + patch to handle servers that do not return +OK as banner (RFC 1939 does not appear to allow this) + patch to fix problem of response on QUIT command (in Close) being ignored. + Fixed documentation on Head and HeadAndBody. Preview lines argument was in the wrong one. 2.7 2000/03/25 + clarify documentation regarding APOP. + Add support for BEST mode when authenticating. BEST will attempt APOP and drop back to PASS on failure. This is the default for version 2.7 so if you only want APOP, you must specify that. + Fixed problem with some servers not liking 'LIST ' as a command. + Added BodyToFile and HeadAndBodyToFile, which will write their output to the given file handle. 2.6 2000/02/15 + some servers were not sending any message after the +OK for DELE and RSET. Changed regexps to account for this. 2.5 1999/12/19 + Added ListArray to return an indexed array of results of the List command. Indexes are the server's message numbers, beginning at 1. Additional info supplied by the server beyond message size may be lost. The RFC discourages servers from sending this info. + yet another EOF fix (this one for Head(msgnum,linecount)) where the read would end prematurely if the message had a line with a period at the beginning of a line (would return less than the number of lines requested). 2.4 1999/11/20 + fixed problem created by previous fix. Lines that had only a . on them were treated as the end of message (since the test was after stripping the . added by the POP3 server). Thanks to Christophe Wolfhugel at oleane dot net. 2.3 1999/10/11 + fixed problem where lines beginning with '.' in a mail message were not having the extra '.' removed. The POP3 server adds this '.' to escape the original '.' so that it is not interpreted as the end of message marker. Pointed out by Jim Osborne at Wingra dot com. 2.2 1999/10/10 + fixed problem with MacPerl and lingering CR/LF chars on the socket. 2.1 1999/08/19 + moved all socket IO to 2 methods to allow debug to print all socket IO. (mitra at earth dot path dot net) + fixed some places where you could get an empty string returned as an error when calling from an array context. Now returns nothing (false for both array and scalar context). + defaults to APOP (digest) as authentication mode. Will switch to PASS (cleartext) if server does not claim to support APOP. This will mean less passwords sent in cleartext. + fixed example in the Synopsis section (missing argument to Head). + added a simple documentation line for Uidl 2.00 1999/04/29 - major rebuild, including: + changed to hash-style constructor. See the inline doco. This will be the only supported constructor in later versions. + changed underlying socket code to use IO::Socket. Timeout settings on the socket are now supported so you can make sure that POP accesses do not hang. + added tests (use POPTESTACCOUNT environment variable to use: '% POPTESTACCOUNT=userid:password:host make test') + module passes strict + you can construct a Mail::POP3Client object which does not auto-connect (by not passing in a USER and PASSWORD) and then connect manually 1.23 1999/04/16 + fixed bug in Head when optional number of lines is not passed, set to zero if undefined or non-numeric (submitted by Bjoern Kriews ) 1.22 1999/04/15 + change Retrieve to return HeadAndBody. It was using too much memory by building both an array and a string to return. 1.21 1999/04/08 + add SYNOPSIS info for perldoc. + add support for previewing messages using second integer argument to Head, as in $pop->Head( 0, 10 ), which would get the headers and the first 10 lines of the body for message 0. Contributed by Dennis Moroney + convert prints to carps. + change local to my. 1.19 198/12/04 + added basic APOP support patches from Gerhard Gonter . Login does not currently auto-detect APOP on the server. 1.18 1998/12/04 + fixed typo in Body ($$line = ...) + remove set of $\ + once again, fix the distribution (this time I built it on a Unix box. Thanks to Terry Sigle.) 1.17 1998/11 + fixed newline/carriage return problem in distribution. 1.16 1998/09 + replaced all occurences of chop with chomp. Should make it more compatible on machines like the Mac. + Removed all uses of $_ =. Uses locally declared variables now. + Now compiles with no warnings.