Perl Programming 
I have never been so frustrated as I am now. Trying to learn Perl and fighting with the module documentation is driving me crazy. I thought I had the beginnings of an MUA a while ago using the module POP3Client. Guess not since I get locked out of my email box everytime I try to access it with the script (first time works - every time after that locks). And no - the module doesn’t use flock on the box. Something about the script is triggering the lock.
Started to look into MIME-Tools just out of blind frustration… And the docs have my head spinning. Figured it was time to go to the basics (since I was having problems doing the basic stuff like looking for the inbox.lock file and deleting it - ended up just using a PHP script to do it).
So far just reading the first chapter of “Learning Perl” has helped alot in clarifying things - and that is simply a language summery chapter. I think I’m going to need at least a week to get my metaphoric feet under me with Perl before I’ll try the MUA again. Hopefully I won’t be so incredibly ignorant by then - just mostly. 
Maybe one of these days I’ll learn to look before I leap - but where is the fun in that.
