use Mail::POP3Client; $mail = new Mail::POP3Client("username", "password", "pop3.yourserver.com"); if ($mail->Count) { print "You have ", $mail->Count, " new message(s).\n"; print "Storing message(s) to disk.\n"; open FILEHANDLE, ">file.txt"; for($loop_index = 1; $loop_index <= $mail->Count; $loop_index++) { print FILEHANDLE $mail->HeadAndBody(1); } close FILEHANDLE; }