>I'm trying to write a pop3 component using winsock, problem is i can't even get to the connect part.

Look at Thread #199637. I wrote there about the "problem" today.

>Anyone with a vfp source sample using winsock?

You can see Visual Basic complete example in MSDN. I guess there will no troubles to understand the idea regardless slightly different sintax.

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