kreftt, I have followed the directions and still no results and not sure if any factors that might stop this from working
*At first I thought it might be the username and the "case" so I made a lowercase username and have done this
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//these are to determine which "user" shall post
//the newsletter in which forum
$forumid="5";
$postusername="skybot";
$userid="8";
//pop3-settings
$mailserver="mail.mydomain.net";
$mailport="110";
$mailuser="skybot";
$mailpass="******";
//next setting is to avoid spam
//only emails with the following string included in the sender is parsed
$allowedsender="mydomain.net";
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*Note have replaced *real* domain with "mydomain.net" for posting here

as well i am using the correct password for the mail account
**I am not running this via cron but I visit the page manually and reload a few times and get no results, have sent 5 mails to
skybot@mydomain.net and I know they are getting there but the emails don't seem to get posted to the forum as they should, any factors you could think that might influence this not happening?
Thanks again for your time