From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2002-07-02T13:48:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Net::POP

Hi,

Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> writes:

:I am having problems with ruby 1.6.6 and Net::POP.
:
:require 'net/pop'
:
:pop = Net::POP3.new('pop-server')
:pop.start('user', 'secret')
:
:pop.each do |msg|
:    print msg.top(1)
:    msg.delete!
:end
:
:The above code does NOT delete the messages as it should
:(msg.delete!).

You should call POP3#finish, or call POP3.start with block.

require 'net/pop'

Net::POP3.start('pop-server', 110, 'user', 'secret') do |pop|
  pop.each do |msg|
    print msg.top(1)
    msg.delete!
  end
end

For details, see http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb?key=pop+quit+delete&cginame=namazu.rb&submit=Search&dbname=ruby-talk&max=50&whence=0

-- 
eban