it is possible that you can manage your hotmail account using outlook express. but how can you control your outlook express with a hotmail account trough code? i've tried the vbmail example but it only controls the local account or the pop/smtp account not my hotmail account. plz help. tnx.

[ChiefRedBull]

Outlook Express manages this through a protocol called HttpMail.
It runs via a mix of HTTP and XML.. it's not too hard, but it's
more complex than SMTP, that's for sure.

http://jhttpmail.sourceforge.net/httpmail.html

It's based of WebDAV as far as I can tell.. the RFC for which is
here:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2518.txt

[excaliber]

Would this also work for yahoo since it is web based? Or not because Hotmail is Microsoft Based?

[ChiefRedBull]

I don't know. I haven't seen anything to do with Yahoo, but I
think it probably won't, most likely because of the reason you
gave