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tariehk
01-16-2002, 08:23 PM
Hi,

A user asked me to install these perl modules:

http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-module/Net/libnet-1.0901.tar.gz

one POP3.pm and one is Config.pm

I read POP3.pm and it seems like it gives PERL permission to use the pop program on my linux server. I do not know if it is a good ideal. Could this mess up anything? Your help is appreciated. Thanks.

priyadi
01-16-2002, 10:00 PM
It doesn't give perl 'permission' to use POP. The user can always install it in their directory himself. However, he will need to modify some part of his code.

As libnet is quite a popular module, I think it nice for your users to have it already installed in your servers.