Although the access to the code sample requires a membership, winsock can do it for you.
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=388 Winsock: reading email messages (POP3, port 110)


>Hello,
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>I want to make reading emails from POP3 account. I don't want to delete emails from the POP3 server, so I have to know which email already processed. I found such Message-ID in email source. Before I used Dimac jMail ActiveX to retrieve (and delete) emails from POP3 account, but figured out that it doesn't show Message-ID. Is there any activeX which I could use for such task. Preferable freeware.
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>Thanks,