NAME

Authen::Simple::POP3 - Simple POP3 authentication

SYNOPSIS

    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>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against a POP3 service.

METHODS

•: 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.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

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

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