>Howdy. This is my first contribution to Universal Thread, so go easy on me.
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>Is there anyone out there that can give me the specs on the file that MS IE uses to hold your mail? I want to write a program that will read the mail from specific folders I've created, and insert them into a VFP table.
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>I can open the *.MBX file, but it doesn't seem to be any kind of format that I can recognize; in fact, it just seems to be a giant ASCII text file. But, I didn't figure it was comma-delimited, nor did it appear to be fixed-format.

I would suggest you get the email directly from the POP server. By that, you will be handle to bypass the MS IE mailbox format and use standard POP protocol to retrieve your email. - if this is applicable of course. :)