Retriveing Mail using ASP

> But,i would like to develop my own component

> for accessing mail rather than using thirdparty
> components.

POP3 proptocol is pretty simple at a basic level and a
quick search of the net will give you examples and
tutorials on how you use it. Then all you need is a way
of using sockets to talk TCP/IP to the mail server. If
you are using VB then it comes with a Winsock control, you
could also try using the winsock APIs but they are a bit
more hard-core. Easiests by far is if you are using
vb.net.

> I would like to know if ASP itself has facilities
> which could be used to create our own component as
> such to access mail from pop mail servers.

ASP has no built-in mechanism to retrieve mail from a
mailserver, not can it talk over sockets. You need a
component of some sort. You might already have something
on the server that will let you do it such as the MAPI
objects or CDO or something.