Try using the IMAP protocol if your server supports it. With imap you can get read and unread messages; move messages from folder to folder etc...
Chris Albert, Innovative Technologies. http://www.it.co.ke/beta -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 8:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [delphi-en] Re: [Indy-Dev-Public] INDY POP3 - Getting Unread Email Count Hi Dan, tIdPop3.CheckMessages gets the number of messages in the inbox and theit MSGIDs. If you want to know, which ones you consider to be 'read', you have to manage this by yourself. MS Outlook stores the MSGIDs in a separate file, if you are not deleting them from the server after download. Hope that helps, have fun Bob > Can anyone tell me how to get the number of unread email messages in an > inbox? I thought I could use POP3 but perhaps not. Any help is appreicated. > Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hq3tu2o/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705115362:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123151606/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
