I found a couple of references on the web to ruby 1.9 having a pop library that supported OpenSSL - something I need in order to retrieve gmail. I don''t have the capability here to build from scratch (and being a newbie have never tried...) so i downloaded the 1.9 version from http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/develop.html. When I run a test script, I get a wrong number of args error message for Net::POP3.start, which makes me think I still do not have the right version (1.8 version takes 5 args, ssl version appears to take 8). Is there another location to get the 1.9 version for windows, or is there a lib file that I can use under 1.8 to get this working? TIA, Keith