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.
SEE ALSO¶
Authen::Simple.
Net::POP3.
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.