Sending email is very solid in the West Wind Tools, but retrieving email with POP3 is not very solid actually. It's always been a light weight feature meant only for Web Servers to scan for notification messages, rather than a full blown POP3 solution you can use to build an email client.

I've been meaning to update this functionality with a new third party library, but never got around to it, mainly because it's mostly a niche feature. Dealing with email reading in an application is fraught with lots of problems that are often more easily solved by automating email clients like Outlook rather than dealing with the raw actual protocols.

+++ Rick ---

>>I am looking for s/w to retrieve and send email from the internet. The software must be controllable by VFP.
>>I am currently using Westwind for these functions, but when retrieving headers, the s/w sometimes fails.
>>Thanks for any suggestions.
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>Chaim,
>Westwind is proven to be stable. Would you be able to pinpoint where when it fails for you? Have you contacted WW allready, Rick is known for quick correct answering.
>Regards,
>Koen