Email at first glance appears to be really complex, but once you look further down at how it work you will find out that Email is in fact really simple. POP3 and SMTP each only have about a handfull of command that you need to know to Send/Recieve email messages. The internet mail message format and MIME both appear complex, but are actually very simple and could be thought of as being somewhat object oriented. Really, the most complex part of email is MIME Attachments which is just complex because binary data is Base64 encoded. All you need is a Base64 Encode/Decode library.

I'm still working on my POP3/SMTP Email Client, nothing to show you guys yet. (I haven't had alot of time to work on it that last couple weeks.)

Yes, you can!! If must turn on the “Theme” service in Windows 2003 Server to enable the Windows XP Visual Styles. Then go to the Display Properties in the Control Panel and set the “Windows and Buttons“ dropdown on the Appearance tab to “Windows XP Style”. And like magic you can have Windows 2003 Server look just like Windows XP!!

Sweet!!

I have currently and in the past had so many projects that I've wanted to create but just never actually went and fully developed them. Well, I have a new one I'm working on now and will force myself to finish it. I'm working on a POP3/SMTP EMail Client. I am working on making it support POP3 and SMTP for retrieving and sending email messages. I am also going to make it support the XMTP (eXtensible Mail Transfer Protocol) which is an XML transformation of the standard Internet Message Format. I'm thinking about using XMTP as the heart of how tha app saves messages to the hard drive. It'll be a little while 'till I get a EMail Client anyone can see, right now I'm working on creating a POP3 library and SMTP library that the client will actually use to retieve and send messages.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q174634/