Reading mail on pop-server using sockets

[khibinite]

Hello there!

I am completely newbie in Perl and need your suggestions.

I have such task to speed up the reading of email messages on pop server via sockets because using of Mail::POP3Client is too slow approach.

I need to know the sequence of actions:

1) how could I connect to pop-server;
2) how could I read the list of messages (their subjects, From field and Sender name field);
3) how could I read the message body to extend the task by reading message itself, headers reading, message downloading possibility, attachment downloading possibility.

Any suggestions are very appreciated.

Thank you all in advance and sorry my poor English.