From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T00:03:45+09:00
Subject: Re: socket emergency

>>>>> "S" == Shannon Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com> writes:

S> It hangs here.

 Have you tried with the module 'net/pop' to see if it do the same ?

=== Enshort Code

The example above is very verbose. You can enshort code by using
some utility methods. At first, block form of Net::POP3.start can
alternates POP3.new, POP3#start and POP3#finish.

    require 'net/pop'

    Net::POP3.start('pop.example.com', 110,
                    'YourAccount', 'YourPassword') {|pop|
      if pop.mails.empty?
        puts 'no mail.'
      else
        i = 0
        pop.each_mail do |m|   # or "pop.mails.each ..."
          File.open("inbox/#{i}", 'w') {|f|
            f.write m.pop
          }
          m.delete
          i += 1
        end
        puts "#{pop.mails.size} mails popped."
      end
    }



Guy Decoux