Trouble with fsockopen and pop server HELP!!!

Hi all, I am trying to write a PHP program to open up a mail account on a POP server and move the mail to mail local machine for display on web (or whatever). The problem is that the POP server (and I have tried many) is not responding the way I expect based on what is in the RFC. The code is below: #!/usr/local/bin/php <?php $crlf = chr(13).chr(10); $stdOpen = "\n<html><title>PHP Test Mail interface</title><body>"; printf("$stdOpen"); $mailserver = "mail.summittech.com"; $fp = fsockopen ($mailserver, 110, &$errno, &$errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n"; } else { $problem = "QUIT"; //$problem = "USER chrispin"; fputs ($fp, "$problem $crlf"); while (!feof($fp)) { echo fgets ($fp,128); } fclose ($fp); } ?> </body> </html> _________________ The mail server(s) only respond when $problem = QUIT and then it responds appropriately and quits, every other POP command issued hangs and I am at wits end on figuring out why. Help Please. David PS. I know that I could use the imap commands but, unfortunately, my ISP has not compiled PHP v 3.0.9 with the c client lib and "--with-imap" so those are not available to me. Thanks again.