Email server

how to create an email server in vb(as front end), and access(as backend)..
using SMTP and POP3 protocols

Well, you must do this using Winsock. First of all, you will need to get into SMTP and POP, these protocols are described in RFCs. These can be found at http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rf...o=821&type=ftp (smtp) and at http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rf...=1939&type=ftp (pop3).

Once you know what you will get, you must find a way to handle it. Like storing messages and stuff, and making sure they arrive at the correct destination. Also, you will need to program an interface to manage the server (adding users, quotas and stuff). Anyway, a lot of work, but not that hard at all.

If I may advice you (and please, take it), DON'T use Access as backend to store messages. You could use Access to store information about mailboxes and users or configuration or whatever, but don't use it to store messages. If you store them in a db, the db will explode and degrade performance because large records (like say an email with a 2 MB attachment) will take ages to search and locate. Just use plain files for that.

Tom Cannaerts
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook

I tryed the SMTP link above and got no where, i did a site search and found this... ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2821.txt is it the same thing?