problems with reading email with php

I'm attempting to connect to a pop3 server on netfirms in order to read

my emails via php.
When I execute the fsockopen function with mail.mydomain.com and port
110 - i get the error
Can't connect to Server. Error: 65 -- No route to host. However, I am

able to telnet to that ip/port.
I'm not sure where to go from here. Do I need to change a particular
setting in my php.ini file?

.