VB code to check POP3 account

Hello All,
Regular lurker, irregular poster here. Sorry for pushing what should be
my homework off, but I am looking for some hints to help me use less time &
a push to get started. I thought of the application (maybe already done
somewhere) a couple years ago & hadn't gone much further.
The program would poll a distinct POP3 account on a regular basis to
see if a message arrived in a particular format (see below). If a match, the
text of the message goes through DDE to an alpha pager program to be sent to
the correct pager. I've done the VB code to DDE to the alpha page program a
few years ago, so it is only the POP3 polling I need help with.
My alpha pager is from a distinct phone number & can have a message of
up to 80 characters long (fills up quickly). The computer it will run on is
constantly on the Internet through a dedicated connection (in fact runs
network monitoring software to send out pages). Since there are multiple
employees in the alpha page program (all able to be individually selected
with the DDE link) the format will be as such:

E-mail address polled: pager@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject line: DDE entry for name of person to be paged (and will help stop
spam from sending a page)
Message body: text to be paged, probably truncated to 80 characters &
converted to plain text

VB6 is available to me. Even though there may be stand-alone
applications that could be done (such as VB sending out the page itself), I
want to keep it as planned (mainly for error checking being handled fine as
it is). My DDE link program was done in VB3 or 4 I think, and I just have
the executable (and original references to do a rewrite) now.
TIA,
David
David@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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