Juggernot, the code on that page is C# but don't assume that that's no use and ignore it. LOOK at the code and try to understand what it's doing. The majority of the lines of C# code simply require the semicolon to be removed and they are VB code. The ones that need more are mostly just declarations. There are also plenty of free code converters available on the Web.
SMTP is the protocol used to send e-mail, while POP3 is the protocol used to retrieve it. n When you set up an e-mail account in Outlook or whatever you have to specify an SMTP server and a POP3 server, remember? You can send e-mail using your current e-mail address by specifying that as the From address and specifying your ISP's SMTP server address, which you can get from your current e-mail client. .NET supports sending e-mail via SMTP but it has no explicit support for retrieving it via POP3. I have seen free third-party componentson the Web that support POP3 if you want to build a full e-mail client. Microsoft rightly consider sending e-mail as a much more common requirement of an application than receiveing it, which is normally the domain of dedicated e-mail clients.
Yes, the MSDN documentation is very great, but I noticed this topic was only C# just after I posted and changed it to some site with VB.Net code also. systemnetmail.com (and systemwebmail.com) are also good resources for using and getting out of trouble when using the mail namespaces.
