start(account, password) Instance Public methods Starts a POP3 session. When called with block, gives a POP3 object to the block and closes the session after block call finishes. This method raises a POPAuthenticationError if authentication fails.

started?() Instance Public methods true if the POP3 session has started. active?

use_ssl?() Instance Public methods does this instance use SSL?

all( dest = '' ) Instance Public methods Alias for: pop

delete() Instance Public methods Marks a message for deletion on the server. Deletion does not actually occur until the end of the session; deletion may be cancelled for all marked messages by calling Net::POP3#reset. This method raises a POPError if an error occurs. Example POP3.start('pop.example.com', 110, 'YourAccount, 'YourPassword') do |pop| n = 1 pop.mails.each do |popmail| File.open("inbox/#{n}", 'w') do |f| f.write popmail.pop end popmail.

delete!() Instance Public methods Alias for: delete

deleted?() Instance Public methods True if the mail has been deleted.

header(dest = '') Instance Public methods Fetches the message header. The optional dest argument is obsolete. This method raises a POPError if an error occurs.

inspect() Instance Public methods Provide human-readable stringification of class state.

mail( dest = '' ) Instance Public methods Alias for: pop