Email ?

I have written a VB application which retrieves Email from my mailserver using the winsock Control. When receieving email, it has been formatted according to the email client application. This differs dramatically from cleint to client - I would like to know if there is any standard email format, which can be decoded, so I can see the:
1) To
2) From
3) Subject
4) Date
5) Message
6) Attachmets (this is the most important)

Anybody know of a control which does this correctly ??

I have written my own, but it has some problems sometimes, with file attachments ;(

thanks

The standard format is MIME encoding, and all the message information is in the headers. There will be an RFC on it, if you do a search on AV.

What is AV ?? I've tried searching for the RFC b4, and havent had much luck ;(
I understand howto decode the UUENCODED attachment.... I think the RFC will definately help...if I can find it

thanks

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