>Hello there,
>I'm making a VB programm in which I will read an email message and retrieve text out of this message to write to a database.
>
>Does anyone know how I can see when a message arrives and how I can read it in VB?

You will find this in a book I am currently reading: VB6.0 Internet Programming from Wiley (ISBN 0-471-31498-6). The author is Carl Franklin.