fgets to port 110 won't work

Greetings, I am attempting to setup a web based email but am having problems accessing port 110. fsockopen successfully opens a connection, but any access to the connection with fgets just hangs. Even an feof to the connect just hangs. It never returns. I can telnet into the port and all of the Pop3 commands work just fine. I can fsockopen to port 80 and send and get back http stuff. It just seems that 110 will not respond. I have used code based on pop3.php script and have written a simple script such as the following: $connection=fsockopen("[set to my host]",110); $line=fgets($connection,1024); what follows isn't relavent because it just hangs on the fgets line. Does anyone have a clue as to why this will not work for me? Is there some configuration in Linux that I need to do first for this to work? Is it a permission thing or what? -- ==== Programming my first best destiny! ==== Michael A. Hess Miracle Concepts, Inc. mhess@miraclec.com http://www.miraclec.com