Sending and Receiving Emails

I have to write a program in VB where one of its tasks is to be able to send and receive emails.

I have some knowledge of VB but I do not know how to make it check emails.

Is this feasible in VB and if yes how to do it?

Are there some internet links where I can get some tutorials or information about sending and receiving emails.


Thanks for your help.

Ok recieving emails is very hard. Well if you want the attachment that is and without using MAPI, CDO or outlook!

Sending is easy you can use winsock to do that!
Search www.planet-source-code.com
and you find a solution.

Now i'm not going to get complicated but the easiest way to send and recieve emails is by using the MAPI controls, which i dislike!

on PSC there are examples of sending and receiveing emails using MAPI!

You can use MAPI features for sending emails, i have done this before
It is quite easy but outlook has to be present on the machines for mapi to work. So i had to change to xp_sendmail feature of SQLServer(which is the efficent way). So if ur database is in SQLServer it is the best way.

Monte