Copyright (c) 2003 Alex Pleiner - zeitform Internet Dienste.
[email protected] - 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.

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Abstract
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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, CRAM-MD5 or PLAIN. This module can be expanded and
is a very first implementation.

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Requirements
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This module requires:

  - Net::POP3 (should be obvious)
  - MIME::Base64
  - Digest::HMAC_MD5

The requirements are encoded in Makefile.PL.

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Basic Installation
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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

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Manual Installation
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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.